--- layout: page title: Authoring Blog Posts with Obsidian description: Trying a new way to write for this site date: 2023-10-20 tags: - meta draft: true extra: auto_center_images: true excerpt: A post about authoring blog posts with Obsidian uses: - mermaid --- It recently occurred to me that [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md) is capable of editing *any* type of markdown document store, not just its own note "Vaults". So, as a test I've been using it to interface with the source files that make up this website. This post largely exists for the sake of figuring out how Obsidian behaves when forced into an environment that doesn't entirely agree with the "obsidian way of doing things". --- - Editing extra field is hard - Hot reload works very nicely (with auto-save when typing!) - Editing properties is pretty nice - Graph is very good -