using obsidian-digital-garden

This is my oversimplified version of the plugin's instructions here.

preliminary work

• github account
• netlify account
• go to this repo
  • click in "Deploy to netlify"
  • give it a meaningful name
  • follow the steps on netlify
• create an access token on github and copy it in a safe place

in obsidian

• install the obsidian-digital-garden community plugin
• in obsidian "Digital Garden" options, fill in
  • github username
  • the name of the repo (you created it right after "Deploy to netlify")
  • the github access token

creating notes

The notes you want to see published must have dg-publish: true on their frontmatter:

---
dg-publish: true
---

The one you wanna see as your home page must have this on the frontmatter:

---
dg-publish: true
dg-home: true
---

publishing "all" notes

Currently there's no way to publish all notes by default (I opened an issue with requesting this feature).

As a workaround I created a script that works nice for my workflow: https://gist.github.com/meleu/f9667e76a2744d46686702edeb3cc77c

Requirement: the vault itself must be a git repository (what I usually do).

The script adds a dg-publish: true to all versioned *.md files that don't have a dg-publish: defined in it's frontmatter.

Consequences of this:

• non versioned files won't be affected (e.g.: gitignored files)
• files without any frontmatter will have one with dg-publish: true
• files with a dg-publish: (any value) in its frontmatter won't be touched

While the feature requested in the OP is not implemented, I'll be using that script as pre-commit git hook.

themes for the published website

My favorite ones come in the top

• Atom [dark]
• Things [dark]
• Typewriter [dark]
• 👎 Default theme is not cool