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After switching my blogs to a static blogging engine, I found a number of preventable issues. Certain syntax errors, forgot tags, or forgot a description, or forgot a preview picture, or forgot an image. This kind of things. So I wrote check-markdown-files.py, which now scans all my blog postings before committing the posting to git. Any known error is raised, and aborts the commit. Each problem has an override switch in case it is a false positive.

My previously used meeting template for Obsidian used the current date and time for the filename. I rarely start Obsidian right when the meeting starts, usually I'm early and prepare the meeting. This results in filenames like '2024-08-02 13:52 important meeting'. I want this aligned to when the meeting starts, '2024-08-02 14:00 important meeting'.

In my Daily Notes in ObsidianMD I want to add entries on certain weekdays. However this added empty lines in-between. Figuring out what is going on in the Template takes some time and effort.

Hugo uses Markdown to create the content, which is then parsed into static HTML. One of the features of Markdown are quotes. Multiline quotes (block quotes) are possible, but they are not very intuitive.

This tutorial explains how to integrate YouTube videos into a blog posting in Hugo.

New blog. Or, more exactly, new blog software. I moved this blog from Serendipity to Hugo.

I have a few community plugins enabled in my Obsidian. One of them is 'Paste URL into selection' - and it fits very well into the Markdown workflow. Also what you might know from other tools like Slack.

In the previous Obsidian blog posting about managing tasks I showed a note which lists all open tasks in my Work vault. This gives me quick access to all open tasks. In the same way I use another note quite often which shows me recently added and changed files in my Work vault.

My Obsidian vault is 'all-in-one', personally I don't like switching between multiple vaults for work and private stuff, and I organize it in a way to keep things separated in one vault. Multiple templates I'm using automatically generate Tasks in my vault, therefore I need a convenient way to see open work tasks. This blog posting describes the approach I'm using.

Obsidian is a note-taking software and knowledge base software, where the notes/files are written in Markdown. For quite a while I'm using it in my daily work. One of the cool features it has is named 'Daily Notes'.