Brandon Boswell | Obsidian, Quartz 4 and Open Source w/ Jacky Zhao @BrandonKBoswell | Uploaded April 2024 | Updated October 2024, 14 hours ago.
We're going to try something a little different today. I love the Tools for Thought community, and I thought it would be nice to peel back the curtain a bit and showcase the people and projects that are moving Tools for Thought Forward. Quartz has been a major removal of friction from my content publishing workflow, and I recently got a chance to sit down with its creator, the brilliant Jacky Zhao. We talked about Obsidian, Tools for Thought and what it's like building, maintaining and debugging an open source projects that thousands of people depend on.
📖 Mentioned in this video:
• Obsidian — https://obsidian.md/
• Quartz — https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/
• How to Publish your Obsidian Second Brain for Free — youtube.com/watch?v=ITiiuBNVue0
• Remark Rehype — github.com/remarkjs/remark-rehype
• Hugo — gohugo.io
• VIM — neovim.io
• Telescope — github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim
• Obsidian Publish — https://obsidian.md/publish
• Obsidian Gems —https://obsidian.md/blog/2023-goty-winners/
• Brandon's Reflection Plugin — github.com/brandonkboswell/weekly-review
• Brandon's Weekly Review Plugin — github.com/brandonkboswell/reflection
• Channel Membership — link.brandonkboswell.com/membership
📶 Next Steps
1. Check out 🔎 Finding Focus, the email newsletter where I share my reflections from the past week to improve your focus and creativity. link.brandonkboswell.com/newsletter
2. Check out our Discord Server for Knowledge Workers. We've got a bunch of people from all areas, but we don't have you... 🎉 You should join and come hang out: link.brandonkboswell.com/knowledge-worker-discord
3. Become a channel member over on Patreon. Your support encourages me to continue making things and sharing them with the world. You also get a bunch of useful Digital Assets. link.brandonkboswell.com/membership
📺 Subscribe — youtube.com/c/brandonkboswell
🏆 Patreon — link.brandonkboswell.com/membership
📫 Finding Focus Newsletter — link.brandonkboswell.com/newsletter
💬 Discord — link.brandonkboswell.com/knowledge-worker-discord
📝 For more on eInk Tablets, check out — brandonkboswell.com/eInk-Digital-Tablets
📓 Second Brain — brandonkboswell.com
☕ Buy Me A Coffee — link.brandonkboswell.com/coffee
✍️ Current Tablet: reMarkable 2 — link.brandonkboswell.com/remarkable
🖊 My Favorite eInk Stylus: Samsung S Pen (S6 Lite) — link.brandonkboswell.com/samsung-s-pen
⚙️ Current Kit / Favorite Gear — brandonkboswell.com/blog/My-Favorite-Gear
🎥 Video Editor: Edited with Gling: gling.ai / link.brandonkboswell.com/davinci-resolve
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🕐 TIMESTAMPS
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00:00 - Intro
01:57 - What is Quartz?
04:46 - Community Contributions
05:52 - Telescope Search for the Web
06:41 - Obsidian / VIM Learning Curves
08:10 - How did you get started with Quartz?
08:32 - Imposter Syndrome
09:30 - Obsidian Publish
11:17 - How to know when it's time for a new major version?
13:22 - Software is like a house
13:40 - Obsidian Markdown is not HTML compliant by default
15:56 - What is different in Quartz 4?
18:27 - Remark-Rehype
20:55 - What is the toughest bug you've had to solve?
23:55 - Hot Reloading is Hard
24:20 - Quirkiest Bug
27:03 - Obsidian Linking Strategies
28:32 - The Growth of Obsidian
29:00 - The Hardest and Most rewarding aspects of Open Source
30:39 - A Focus Minority
32:12 - Why Software Engineers do what they do
33:21 - Removing Friction from the Publishing Process
34:15 - Writing is like Pottery
36:21 - Obsidian Gems Award
37:35 - Quartz vs Obsidian Publish
38:51 - When to use Obsidian Publish
40:29 - A big thank you to Obsidian
41:49 - What else are you working on?
42:28 - LSPs
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#obsidian #toolsforthought #t4t #quartz #productivity #secondbrain
We're going to try something a little different today. I love the Tools for Thought community, and I thought it would be nice to peel back the curtain a bit and showcase the people and projects that are moving Tools for Thought Forward. Quartz has been a major removal of friction from my content publishing workflow, and I recently got a chance to sit down with its creator, the brilliant Jacky Zhao. We talked about Obsidian, Tools for Thought and what it's like building, maintaining and debugging an open source projects that thousands of people depend on.
📖 Mentioned in this video:
• Obsidian — https://obsidian.md/
• Quartz — https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/
• How to Publish your Obsidian Second Brain for Free — youtube.com/watch?v=ITiiuBNVue0
• Remark Rehype — github.com/remarkjs/remark-rehype
• Hugo — gohugo.io
• VIM — neovim.io
• Telescope — github.com/nvim-telescope/telescope.nvim
• Obsidian Publish — https://obsidian.md/publish
• Obsidian Gems —https://obsidian.md/blog/2023-goty-winners/
• Brandon's Reflection Plugin — github.com/brandonkboswell/weekly-review
• Brandon's Weekly Review Plugin — github.com/brandonkboswell/reflection
• Channel Membership — link.brandonkboswell.com/membership
📶 Next Steps
1. Check out 🔎 Finding Focus, the email newsletter where I share my reflections from the past week to improve your focus and creativity. link.brandonkboswell.com/newsletter
2. Check out our Discord Server for Knowledge Workers. We've got a bunch of people from all areas, but we don't have you... 🎉 You should join and come hang out: link.brandonkboswell.com/knowledge-worker-discord
3. Become a channel member over on Patreon. Your support encourages me to continue making things and sharing them with the world. You also get a bunch of useful Digital Assets. link.brandonkboswell.com/membership
📺 Subscribe — youtube.com/c/brandonkboswell
🏆 Patreon — link.brandonkboswell.com/membership
📫 Finding Focus Newsletter — link.brandonkboswell.com/newsletter
💬 Discord — link.brandonkboswell.com/knowledge-worker-discord
📝 For more on eInk Tablets, check out — brandonkboswell.com/eInk-Digital-Tablets
📓 Second Brain — brandonkboswell.com
☕ Buy Me A Coffee — link.brandonkboswell.com/coffee
✍️ Current Tablet: reMarkable 2 — link.brandonkboswell.com/remarkable
🖊 My Favorite eInk Stylus: Samsung S Pen (S6 Lite) — link.brandonkboswell.com/samsung-s-pen
⚙️ Current Kit / Favorite Gear — brandonkboswell.com/blog/My-Favorite-Gear
🎥 Video Editor: Edited with Gling: gling.ai / link.brandonkboswell.com/davinci-resolve
-------------------------------
🕐 TIMESTAMPS
-------------------------------
00:00 - Intro
01:57 - What is Quartz?
04:46 - Community Contributions
05:52 - Telescope Search for the Web
06:41 - Obsidian / VIM Learning Curves
08:10 - How did you get started with Quartz?
08:32 - Imposter Syndrome
09:30 - Obsidian Publish
11:17 - How to know when it's time for a new major version?
13:22 - Software is like a house
13:40 - Obsidian Markdown is not HTML compliant by default
15:56 - What is different in Quartz 4?
18:27 - Remark-Rehype
20:55 - What is the toughest bug you've had to solve?
23:55 - Hot Reloading is Hard
24:20 - Quirkiest Bug
27:03 - Obsidian Linking Strategies
28:32 - The Growth of Obsidian
29:00 - The Hardest and Most rewarding aspects of Open Source
30:39 - A Focus Minority
32:12 - Why Software Engineers do what they do
33:21 - Removing Friction from the Publishing Process
34:15 - Writing is like Pottery
36:21 - Obsidian Gems Award
37:35 - Quartz vs Obsidian Publish
38:51 - When to use Obsidian Publish
40:29 - A big thank you to Obsidian
41:49 - What else are you working on?
42:28 - LSPs
-------------------------------
This post contains affiliate links. If you use these links to buy something, I may earn a commission. Thank you for supporting the channel.
#obsidian #toolsforthought #t4t #quartz #productivity #secondbrain
