Free Obsidian-like Website

FlowerShow

Overview

• Main Website: https://flowershow.app
• Get Started: https://flowershow.app/docs/publish-tutorial
• GitHub Repo: https://github.com/datopian/flowershow
• Guide: https://flowershow.app/docs
• Roadmap: https://github.com/orgs/flowershow/projects/1/views/7
• Discussion: https://github.com/datopian/flowershow/discussions
• Contact: https://discord.gg/cPxejPzpwt

My Review

• I didn't get all details but:
  • Pros:
    • Easy installation
    • Optimistic Roadmap
  • Cons:
    • Doesn't support may Obsidian Features Out of the Box
      • Graph View
      • Wiki Links

MindStone

Overview

• GitHub Repo: https://github.com/TuanManhCao/digital-garden
• Demo site: https://mindstone.tuancao.me/

My Review

• Followed the instructions in the README:
  1. Clone this Github repo
  2. Install yarn package manager
  3. Copy all of your markdown file (.md only) and folder to /posts/ except /posts/index.md file
  4. Copy all of your images from your Obsidian Vault to /public/images/ folder
  5. Go to root folder of your project, run yarn && yarn run dev
  6. Open this link in your browser http://localhost:3000/
• The local version worked using GIT Bash Command due to some commands related to Linux and not compatible with Windows
• I didn't get all details but:
  • Pros:
    • Supports Obsidian features:
      • Graph View
      • Folder navigation
      • Wiki Link
  • Cons:
    • Slow and buggy
    • Graph View doesn't refresh
    • Simple white theme

Quartz

Overview

• GitHub Repo: https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz
• Demo site: https://jzhao.xyz/
• [External] Installation guide: https://brandonkboswell.com/blog/Publishing-your-Obsidian-Vault-Online-with-Quartz/

My Review

• Pros:
  • Obsidian-like Interactive Graph
  • Backlinks
  • Link Preview
  • Search
  • Dark/Light mode
  • Customizable and hackable design based on Hugo

Obsidian Zola

Overview

• GitHub Repo: https://github.com/ppeetteerrs/obsidian-zola
• Demo site: https://peteryuen.netlify.app
• Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/u3irg6/a_free_simple_good_looking_alternative_to/

My Review

• Not yet, but it contains the below features:
  • Graph View
  • On this page
  • Folder navigation
  • Search
  • Dark mode

Digital Garden

Overview

My Review

• It is the most flexible, full featured solution I tried so far. I have not done extensive use yet, but so far so good.

Caveats

• Each change has its own commit, so each change will have its own Build. For example, if you updated 10 notes, you will have 10 new commits and 10 builds. This could be an issue when you host your website on a tier with limited number of builds per month.

Markbase

Overview

• GitHub Repo: https://github.com/markbase-obsidian
• Demo and main site: https://www.markbase.xyz/
• Roadmap: https://trello.com/b/qYaGuz0i/markbase-roadmap
• Pricing:
  • Free to publish with subdomain *.markbase.xyz
  • Starts at USD 9/month.

My Review

• Not yet, but it contains the below features:
  • Fast load times
    • Fast internal links (client-side routing)
    • Statically generated pages.
  • Changes go live in minutes! (Just change a file in Obsidian and press the Sync button)
  • Rapid, full-text search
  • View backlinks and a local graph of your notes
  • Optimized for SEO
    • Statically generated
    • Auto-filled metadata for every page
    • Slugs based on your file names
    • Automatic sitemap generation
  • Mobile/tablet optimized
  • Hover links
  • Dark/light mode
  • Table of Contents and section/heading links
  • Google Analytics
  • Selective Publishing

Gatsby Garden

Overview

• GitHub Repo: https://github.com/binnyva/gatsby-garden/
• Demo and main site: https://notes.binnyva.com/
• Pricing:
  • Free to publish

Poko

Overview

• GitHub Repo: https://github.com/m4rrc0/poko-notion
• Pricing:
  • Free to publish

Obsius Publish

Overview

This plugin integrates with obsius.site to publish markdown notes on the web.

• GitHub Repo: https://github.com/jonstodle/obsius-obsidian-plugin

MkDocs Publisher Plugin

Overview

This plugin integrates with MkDocs to publish markdown notes on the web. MkDocs is written in Python and uses Jinja for templating.

• Website: https://www.mkdocs.org/getting-started/
• Obsidian Plugin: https://mkusz.github.io/mkdocs-publisher/
• Reddit Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/149z9fe/mkdocs_publisher_as_an_alternative_for_official/

Features

• creating a blog posts with automatic build of archive, categories, tags, and index pages ( pub-blog plugin),
• social cards metadata creation based on document metadata ( pub-social plugin -
• v0.5.0 ),
• file size optimizations, that is beneficial for site download speed and SEO ( pub-minifier plugin -
• v0.4.0 ),
• automatic documents navigation creation ( pub-meta plugin -
• v1.0.0 ),
• documents publication status with additional meta-data like URL names, etc. beneficial for SEO ( pub-meta plugin -
• v1.0.0 ),
• integration with Obsidian.md as documentation editor with support for some Markdown syntax specific to it and some plugins ( pub-obsidian plugin
  v1.0.0 ):
  • backlinks ,
  • callouts ,
  • wikilinks
  • vega charts (using Vega Visualization Plugin for Obsidian ) - advanced solution for creating charts.

GitHub Publisher

Overview

Publish your notes in your own GitHub repository for free and do whatever you want with them. ✨

This allows you to set up any template: Jekyll, Mkdocs, Hugo, or custom-made ones!

• GitHub Repo: https://github.com/ObsidianPublisher/obsidian-github-publisher
• Demo and main site: https://poko.m4rr.co
• Pricing:
  • Free to publish

Features

• Converting [[wikilinks]] to markdown links
• Linking to other notes and updating the links according to your settings
• Cleaning the repo by removing depublished and deleted files
• Folder notes (renaming them to a specific name, like index.md)
• Simple Dataview queries (not DataviewJs)
• Supporting any markdown syntax supported by your template, as well as other formats like Mermaid or Latex
• And many more ✨