Post #2323618

2026-05-06 01:24 UTC

Okay, after years on #Joplin as my primary notes app, I&#39;m finally considering switching to #Obsidian. It&#39;s *at least* as fully featured, and there&#39;s a plugin that lets me do self-hosted sync like I&#39;ve been doing for years. Here&#39;s the missing component I&#39;d like help with: I want to find a *truly* self-hosted option to publish my notes on Obsidian. With my current Joplin server, I can click &quot;Publish note&quot; in the user interface and have an easily-sharable link to send to whomever wants it. That note is hosted on a server that&#39;s fully under my control. Doing this with Obsidian seems like it will require a decent amount of hacking-around to get working properly. Do y&#39;all have any good options here? (I&#39;ll put some specifics in a reply below, so if you&#39;re gonna respond and not just boost, please read those first!)

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@CiscoJunkie@techhub.social 2026-05-06 01:40

I spent some time earlier today messing around with https://forestry.md/ as an option, even though it's not a self-hosted one. I like the principle, but I struggled to get internal linking between notes to work correctly/consistently on the website, and honestly I'd prefer to have some of the sensitive stuff I'm hosting under my own control. I've also got the "Self-hosted LiveSync" plugin (https://github.com/vrtmrz/obsidian-livesync) up and working smoothly. I have some existing Docker infrastructure for other stuff, so getting this in place was relatively painless. If there are self-publish options I can use that *also* take advantage of that infra, I'll be super happy to lean on what I already have in place. I am hosting on Ubuntu Server 25.10 right now, if it matters.

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@geillescas@techhub.social 2026-05-06 02:17

@CiscoJunkie@techhub.social Forget about Obsidian and look into #Logseq instead. It lets you select a folder for your data and you can sync that folder however you want: git, Nextcloud, restic, etc.

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@hamatti@mastodon.world 2026-05-06 05:53

@CiscoJunkie@techhub.social This is not as click-and-publish as you may be looking for but throwing the idea out there: I use Quartz (https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/) to build my Obsidian vault into a static website I then deploy to my server.

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@voitech@social.lol 2026-05-06 08:31

@CiscoJunkie@techhub.social I have two solutions for this that I use myself: Digital Garden Plugin and Share Note Plugin. The first one can be hosted by Forestry, but it can also be on GitHub. It is used for publishing multiple notes on a single website. The second one is used for publishing individual notes, and you can even encrypt them.

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@CiscoJunkie@techhub.social 2026-05-06 17:33

@garshol@linuxrocks.online The README for that plugin is pretty sparse (https://github.com/kirito41dd/obsidian-hugo-publish), and I don't see encryption mentioned at all. Can you clarify what you're referring to with your comment? Besides that, though, it's not clear to me whether this plugin is intended to export specific pages or the entire vault. I'm also not a huge fan of the fact that it'd require setting up Hugo on every device I want to be able to publish from; that basically excludes an ability to publish content from a mobile device, too. In any case, it's good to know that this is available, so thanks for pointing it out. 😊

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