Obsidian Digital Garden
About This Project
I really wanted to make a public place where I could detail all the useful shit I know. So many times people ask me "Hey do you know XYZ" and I do but I just cant recall where the hell I saw it or what the info was. Hence the idea to make a second brain of information I can review or refer someone else to.
The overall setup process was really smooth and super easy. But there was a ton of research and failed attempts before I landed on using the final tech stack.
How-To
The Obsidian Digital Garden site has a comprehensive install guide. I followed along with this for pretty much the entire thing with two minor deviations.
Vault Repository
Before doing anything I created a repository on GitHub to store this project.
Netlify
The Hobby Plan of Vercel (free tier) was dog water so I went with Netlify as listed in the Hosting Alternatives section of the documentation.
Because we also had made a Vault Repository i decided to name the repo created during the Netlify setup the same name and add -deploy as a suffix.
mydigitalgardenfor the Vault Repositorymydigitalgarden-deployfor the Netlify repo.
Troubleshooting
Permissions
I've only had issues when I changed my repository name which wasn't to hard to fix. But if you followed the callout in the Netlify section then you shouldn't need to change this. If you do update the following:
- Netlify
- Project Configuration/Build & deploy/Repository/Manage Repository
- Github
- I used the fine grained access token
- Obsidian
- Make sure Obsidian and the Digital Garden plugin are updated
More Tech Content
This page is full of information about the #Tech used to setup a Obsidian Digital Garden. You can also see the Tech Resources page or other pages tagged with #Tech for additional information.