2021 09 28

So it’s been a pretty interesting experience trying to publish my Obsidan notes without the use for something like https://obsidian.md/publish. The first problem is that obsidan uses double bracket syntax [[ stuff ]] which is not part of the markdown syntax. Luckily this can be turned off, so backlinks use proper md link syntax.

Next withing obsidan it’s important that New Link format setting is set to Relative path to file. This produces urls which will work will <a ref> tags.

The final problem is that the backlinks are reference .md files so urls will looks something like ../fleeting-note/20210928.md the .md make the url invalid, so we need to chop it off somehow…

• Netlify redirects to the rescue.
• With Netlify redirects we can redirect our invalid url to the correct url. For example

/fleeting-notes/20200910.md  /fleeting-notes/20200910

• But we need to this every single file, so I wrote a pretty simple script to generate the _redirects file.

Also been playing aroudn with Astro alot and it’s been pretty great. VS code gets little bit confused with .astro files sometimes but closing and reopening the file seems to fix it for now.

I love how it’s just html you’re working with but with the component architecture that we know and love.