Post #2626090

2026-05-06 01:40 UTC

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

Finally, my server doesn't handle any of my data unencrypted, so it would be really nice to *not* have to sync an entire unencrypted copy of my Obsidian vault back to it to extract the notes I want to publish. I really like Joplin's model of generating a unique link per-note when it's published; it makes it functionally impossible to dig for content you weren't specifically given. I don't like that Digital Garden exposed the "path" of my notes when I published them, though I suppose that wouldn't be a complete deal-breaker.

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@h3mmy@tech.lgbt 2026-05-06 02:11

@CiscoJunkie@techhub.social Since you already have sync working via the live sync plugin, for sharing you could use the share-note plugin and point it to your own hosted backend: https://github.com/note-sx/server https://github.com/alangrainger/share-note/

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