Create a Book on Markdown
For creating a Book on top of Markdown, there are some solutions I want to explore here.
This could be done solely in Obsidian, but there wouldn’t be management around chapters, post-processing, and many other things that include a book.
There are that add such a feature; for example, GitBook tackles it from the documentation side. But in the same area, there is Quartz, where I build my Second Brain on and all the other Static Site Generators (SSG) website tools. E.g. my Website is built with GoHugo.
But there are also others:
- mdBook based on Rust, an example is the Rust book (documentation)
- Using Pandoc: Building books with Markdown using pandoc
- Frictionless Self-Publishing for Tech-Savvy Writers | Softcover.io used by Shawn Swyx Wang
# Approach of writing a book
# Examples of Books Written in Public
- Beautiful Racket by Matthew Butterick
- GitHub - andkret/Cookbook: The Data Engineering Cookbook
- Data With Rust by Karim Jedda
- “Free Speech” from Timothy Garton Ash? origin
- Nicole van der Hoeven: started with Obsidian:
Tweet
- YouTube of starting out (with Obsidian)
- Patterns in C by Adam Tornhill [Leanpub PDF/iPad/Kindle]
- Julian Shapiro’s self published book/guide: RW Writing Handbook by Julian Shapiro: Writing Handbook by Julian Shapiro
- MEAP Catalog
More on Self-Publish a Book.
A great analogy of Writing in Public is the Brazilian Soup Opera.
# Examples of Books in Markdown
- Data Engineering Design Patterns (DEDP) (mine)
- mdBook example on mdBook Documentation (HTML)
- The Data Engineering Cookbook by Andreas Kretz on GitHub.
- Writing a novel in Markdown - pdworkman.com with Obsidian
- Welcome to Doing It in Public by Nicole van der Hoeven ( GitHub)
# Tools for Writing in Markdown
- mdBook
- Quarto
- Writebook by the once.com (A 37Signal Product) (not markdown, but easy and simple)
From HN Discussion:
- Jekyll
- Hugo Book with GoHugo
- MkDocs(Theme: MkDocs Material)
- GitBook
- Antora
- Docusaurus
- Nextra
- Astro
- Starlight
- Clowncar
- KeenWrite
- Quarto
- Honkit
- JupyterBook
- nimibook.
- Bookdown
Other none markdown tools -> Writer Tools
Read more on Self-Publish a Book.
# Comparison
Origin: Proposal DEDP Book (O Reilly)
References: Writing my Book in Public