Show HN: Open-Source Public Second Brain Built with Obsidian and Quartz https://ift.tt/QLlUjOK

Show HN: Open-Source Public Second Brain Built with Obsidian and Quartz My Public Second Brain (https://ift.tt/QmOc4sa) is built with the help of a wonderful tool called Quartz (https://ift.tt/FHBq03G). Obsidian (https://ift.tt/Ml46T02) has become my favorite for note-takers, given its flexible and linked structure that closely mirrors our natural way of thinking. With Quartz, I was able to seamlessly publish my Obsidian notes to a public vault, providing the groundwork for my Public Second Brain. The journey of making this possible involved some scripting as well. I wrote a python script, find-publish-notes.py (https://ift.tt/yJaF85o), which is integrated into the Makefile (https://ift.tt/wuqLWvO). This script's purpose is to locate all the notes in my Obsidian Vault tagged with #publish and copy them into the Quartz git-repo. When I'm ready to update my public brain, all it takes is a simple command - `make deploy`. This command will publish all the recently tagged notes to brain.sspaeti.com (https://ift.tt/QmOc4sa), ensuring the Second Brain stays updated. Want to see it in action? Here's a recorded example of How I upload to my Public Second Brain - asciinema (https://ift.tt/AxGgtMI). I'm excited about the transparency and accessibility that my Public Second Brain offers. It's a dynamic, growing entity, just like our human brains with backlinks and its graph view. You can find more details about my Public Second Brain here (https://ift.tt/9ZQnJHL). Stay curious, keep learning, and perhaps, see you in the world of open-source knowledge! By the way, I also wrote about Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) workflows (https://ift.tt/ecwBfV3), in case that is something you got interested in. May 26, 2023 at 12:19AM