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I stumbled across a blog post describing a flow where content is authored in Obsidian, where the graph feature of Obsidian had been implemented alongside a notes system that compliments longer form blogs. This lends itself to how I capture information, so I have been busy putting that together.

I write a lot of content in my Personal Knowledge Management system, that forms a set of links between notes like a Wiki does. A lot of that context gets left behind or never leaves my Obsidian vault because it’s not blog-ready and it never will be. So having the ability to publish a note means I can share the information as is, leaving blog posts for longer form writing.

Adding notes

Notes will be published directly from my Obsidian vault, where I make a lot of use of Wikilinks. I have set up some scripts to retain those Wikilinks in this blog, allowing me to build out a network of associations between my notes. Once a note is ready for publishing, I can set a property in the front matter publish: true and the next time I build my Hugo site, it will pick up the new notes and store them in the site. You can see the published notes here.

Introducing threads

This is the cool bit :) Obsidian has a killer graph feature which renders links between notes based on those Wikilinks, which I have replicated here. A script will look for Wikilinks in the note and will convert them into Obsidian-friendly links. I have taken this a step further by also processing links to blog posts. From there a little utility constructs a graph of my notes, which I’ve called Threads, you can have a play with the graph on the Threads page, but you will also find it at the bottom of every note & blog post where any associated notes will be displayed.