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 - Publish Obsidian Vault, 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

Writing my Book 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.

• 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)

• 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.

Origin: Proposal DEDP Book (O Reilly)
References: Writing my Book in Public
Created 2023-02-20