I've added Obsidian to my blogging workflow for Eleventy. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be.
I had been writing posts in VS Code which was OK but I wanted a nicer experience without adding more complexity to my life or having to build a thing.
I have been using Obsidian for note-taking and some writing and I love it. It creates regular markdown files in a folder with properties that are YAML. There are no extra steps or conversions needed to make the Obsidian files work directly with my Eleventy site.
It made sense to set my blog posts as an Obsidian Vault. The additional benefit is that it's easier for me to make notes and drafts in Obsidian. The graph view in Obsidian is a nice tool to have too.
Here's the steps:
- I opened my blog posts directory as a vault in Obsidian.
- Set up a template with my front matter data.
- Set up the Obsidian template settings so the date format matches my blog.
- I created directories for notes and drafts.
- Added the vault, templates, notes and drafts to my gitignore and eleventyignore
That's it.
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