Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

Why Obsidian

  • Your data is stored locally in plain Markdown files
  • It supports Wikilinks for connecting ideas
  • Extensive plugin ecosystem
  • Works offline
  • You own your data forever

Using Obsidian as a CMS

This site is written entirely in Obsidian and published using Jekyll. The workflow is simple:

  1. Write notes in Obsidian
  2. Commit and push to Git
  3. Jekyll builds the site automatically

The [[wikilinks]] syntax is converted to HTML links during the build process using a custom Jekyll plugin.