Kev recently made a post about changing how his blog works. He mentioned the idea of using Obsidian as a content management system, but ultimately built his own CMS. His idea got me thinking though. I started playing with Obsidian for daily notes, and basic post writing. But what could I do if I went all in?

Rocks

Ok, Obsidian is amazing. I played with it a little with handling markdown front matter, but man. Having plugins/themes/settings isolated per vault is fantastic.

After a little fiddling, I set up Hugo to ignore some obsidian files¹, and got a couple plugins installed. One that makes it so file names are displayed using the title property², and one that lets me have a terminal inside Obsidian³. That’s cool and all, but a make shift CMS that does not make.

Obsidian can treat md file’s properties, as database entries. You can make a base file that then displays those properties in one place. So I made one that only showed posts, their title, date, tags, draft status, and a link to open it in the editor.

This feels like just the start down a deep rabbit hole, and I’m loving it.