Public Second Brain with Quartz

Last updated Sep 5, 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

My Obsidian Note-Taking Workflow - YouTube

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.

My Quartz Log

Other Public Second Brains

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