Public Second Brain with Quartz

Last updated Feb 9, 2024

I built a Public Second Brain with Quartz - Publish Obsidian Vault.

I added a python script find-publish-notes.py to the Makefile to copy all my SecondBrain notes from my Obsidian Vault with the hashtag #publish and copy it into the Quartz git-repo.

Update 2023-06-07

I switched from the Python-script to a Rust-script that does the same but adds #hashtags properly as Hugo requests, and it is 30x faster. To get the Rust executable, you need to run cargo build --release from within the utils/obsidian-quartz folder.

With the command make deploy all these copied publish notes will be deployed on brain.sspaeti.com.

I also put all my Zettels in the root folder instead of adding notes sub-folder. This way I can use Wikilinks and do not need to change to absolute paths (which I do not want to activate in my Second Brain).

Main page: _index

How I upload to my Public Second Brain - asciinema

Here I describe how I deploy my second brain.

I self-host on my own server as I already have hosting for my website. The only thing I do I rsync the public-folder to my web hosting, that’s all. The script shows how I do it. The actual line is rsync -avz --delete public/ USER@DOMAIN.com:~/www/brain (just replace with your user and domain).

If you do want to use GitHub actions, you can check the Data Glossary (glossary.airbyte.com) which is the same setup as Quartz, but there we use GitHub. Checkout the required [deploy.yaml]( https://github.com/airbytehq/glossary/blob/hugo/.github/workflows/deploy.yaml](https) that makes the magic work

Basically, when someone changes the branch hugo, it will deploy changes to master branch and publish that. I think I wrote some more details here.

if there is --- in the text, it needs an enter before and after, otherwise we get:

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ProcessExecutionError: Unexpected exit code: 64
Command line: | /opt/homebrew/bin/pandoc -t json -o /var/folders/5p/my46d4_n1jx149p
y_dk9jzyc0000gn/T/tmpm8rn6gcx/output.js -f markdown /var/folders/5p/my46d4_n1jx149p
y_dk9jzyc0000gn/T/tmpm8rn6gcx/input
Stderr:       | YAML parse exception at line 15, column 0,
              | while scanning a simple key:
              | could not find expected ':'

see: ‘pandoc exited with code 64’ Solution | Finisky Garden

• remove h1 markdown and add it as title: "Callouts"
• remove the link in Graph and on page with the beginning /
• create a page with all zettels
• add images that are related
• aliases like a thesaurus (synonyms)
• change CSS to sspaeti.com
• callouts are not correctly shown: Callout behavior inconsistent with Obsidian · Issue #168 · jackyzha0/quartz · GitHub
• convert tags to real tags in frontmatter
• adding left panel folder? Someone did it here: Ignoring Notes
  • did it for glossary, here are all the changes: adding sticky navigation bar on the right with backlinks · airbytehq/glossary@0470a9c · GitHub
• make lower() all zettels
  • links work, but navigating through graph does not work anylonger
  • backlinks also do not work anylonger with this
• removing origin, references, etc.
• last updated but content private (submodule?)
  • added the update date from the local file store instead of github
• wikilinks with . e.g. Plural.sh doesn’t work. See Stackable Kubernetes Cluster (Lego Blocks)
  • should be fixed but also I renamed all these names with . in it.
• Adding side-notes (like foot notes): looks very nice. Jacky is planning to implement it to the Quart repo
• create a pop up when clicking on tags like About-EN - Dr. Mario’s 🧠
• popup of graph view like About-EN - Dr. Mario’s 🧠
• Adding TOC to the right pannel and expanding like ✍️ Sin machirulos hay paraiso. Una charla heterofriendly sobre management - Dr. Mario’s 🧠
• adding Mermaid: Diagrams | Hugo ✅ 2023-10-25

write a blog on How to Create an Open-Source Second Brain .

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References: GoHugo Static Site Generators (SSG) Shared on SH: Hackernews
Created 2022-08-20