After a quick preview of “Obsidian Publish” by I snap-purchased a year’s subscription.
Here’s my plan...
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Roam = messy, rough, explorative thought
Obsidian = polish & publish
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As ideas and thoughts “mature” in , I formalize them by writing about them in Obsidian — and use that as my public digital garden.
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By removing the noise & simplifying the presentation, the notes become more “permanent”.
While I *could* do this in Roam, using has a few advantages in this use-case.
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1) The creative psychology context switching.
Different tools = different thought-spaces.
Roam = expansive divergence
Obsidian = critical convergence
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I find it WAY easier to find a conversational voice if writing directly in Substack vs drafting in Roam or somewhere else.
Super fascinating how my flow changes depending where I’m writing.
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2) Longevity & idea-insurance
Obsidian uses basic markdown, and local file-structure.
I see this as insurance for my best ideas.
Within Roam, there is a lotttt of Roam-specific markdown, making the eventual export less universally compatible.
This mitigates risk.
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3) Enhanced graph-view
This works well with polished ideas.
Adding a malleable graph perspective for exploring my network of ideas allows me to think differently.
New angles = new ideas
The graph-view is moving in the direction I hope eventually goes.
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4) Publish.
This was the clincher.
I’ve been “on the hunt” for an easy way to make a site similar in style to , , and .
Obsidian seems to have done it with “Obsidian Publish”. It’s beautiful.
Some related thoughts & desires here ⬇️
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So sometimes I have an idea — and I write a bit about it
But it doesn’t feel *finished*, and of course it doesn’t — because it’s *never* finished
But publishing feels like what you do to something that is done. Wrapped. Packaged up. Ready to be delivered.
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It's very gratifying to see others do the effortful legwork I don't feel like doing myself! The best possible outcome of publishing a prototype interface, as far as I'm concerned.