Digital Garden

lbolla.info is now based on Obsidian's Digital Garden. Previously, my notes were written in orgmode as .org files. Here are the most important steps I followed to convert them.

From org to md

I used pandoc to convert from org to md, something like:

pandoc --from=org --to=markdown file.org -o file.md -s ...

The conversion is not perfect and required some cleanup to remove spurious "block" elements in the output.

Obsidian

I created a new Obsidian vault in the directory containing the .md files.
I then installed the Obsidian's Digital Garden plugin and configured to publish the notes to Netlify.

I further cleaned up my notes by asking Gemini to tag the notes according to their content, e.g. #python or #programming.

The notes sources are hosted on Github: https://github.com/lbolla/digitalgarden

Workflow

The writing workflow is now pretty simple.

• I create a new note in the Obsidian vault
• When ready to publish it, I tag it with dg-publish
• I invoke the "Digital Garden > Publish" command in Obsidian, which pushes the changes to Github.
• Netlify triggers a deployment of the notes, which are published in a few seconds

Next steps

Write more! There is a much lower barrier of entry to write more now.

• Keep a reading log
• Keep track of what I learn about e.g. AI
• Maybe keep a gym journal
• Ultimately, create a zettlekasten of notes and build a knowledge graph