Someone out there needs your story. Share it now: hostinger.com/networkchuck10 Use code: networkchuck for an extra 10% off. I’m creating the ultimate blog pipeline. After reading How to Build a Second Brain by Tiago Forte, I realized just how valuable my ideas are-and I needed a way to share them with the world. It starts with Obsidian for note-taking and organizing my thoughts, then Hugo formats everything into a beautiful website. From there, GitHub takes care of versioning, and finally, a webhook publishes it all seamlessly to Hostinger. In this video, I’ll walk you through how I built this pipeline and how you can create your own blog to share your ideas with the world. ✍📚 Read my blog: blog.networkchuck.com/ 📃📃📃Link/Guide/Documentation: blog.networkchuck.com/posts/my-insane-blog-pipeline/ 🔥🔥Join the NetworkChuck Academy!: ntck.co/NCAcademy **Sponsored by Hostinger TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Why I’m creating a blog 2:39 - Blogging Pipeline 4:51 - Writing your blog in Obsidian 6:05 - Formatting with Hugo 9:08 - Installing Hugo Themes 12:02 - Syncing Obsidian with Hugo 14:21 - Using Frontmatter in Obsidian 15:28 - Handling Images in Obsidian 18:58 - Pushing your site to GitHub 24:37 - Setting up domain in Hostinger 28:16 - Showing the manual workflow 30:14 - The Mega Script
That might explain, why he is always soooo annoying hectic and nervous and fidgety and twitchy and agitated… Awful! The topics are interestig but it's impossible to learn something from his videos. He's rushing through and skipping all the explanations one needed to understand, what he's doing…
Long time I.T. guy here. Always amazes me when someone like you comes along and can show even us old "Boomers" some new and great ideas. Just set up mine. Went with a little more "complex" of a theme, so it took me a little longer, but all worked out in the end. Thanks for everything you do. Looking forward to many more.
In case anyone else uses putty. Ran into an issue with the SSH Key. Would not use it to authenticate. Need Pageant.exe running when I run the script. Added the following to get it working in my Windows system. Environmental Variable GIT_SSH = C:\Program Files\PuTTY\plink.exe Then add the following to the script. # Set path for SSH key $sshKeyPath = "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\.ssh\id_rsa.ppk" # Start Pageant and add the SSH key Write-Host "Starting Pageant and adding SSH key..." Start-Process "C:\Program Files\PuTTY\pageant.exe" -ArgumentList $sshKeyPath # Wait for Pageant to load the key Start-Sleep -Seconds 2
For the images, you can just change your settings in Obsidian to automatically place them in the folder you specify. Just go to Settings > Files and Links > Default location for new attachments
Hi you are right its the vault folder , but when I run the script the original image will be removed from the markdown and yet will not be showed in the website , just the image link, did you know how to solve that././
I've currently been self teaching myself web development and was already in the process of working on my own blog using CMS for practice. This video came at a great time where I've been slowing down on that project and losing motivation. This looks absolutely up my alley and I will be working on it soon
I rarely comment on videos - but i just wanna tell you how much respect i have for you. It ofcourse started as a "Im learning about this subject, and this cool dude with a nice beard a nice video about it" but now i watch most of your videoes simply because youre so positivy and full of energy. I have so much respect for you!
Maybe an odd thing to complement but I love your squiggles. I always struggle to take notes and underline inside of my books, from a odd feeling that books are a treasure, I shouldn't ruin. I try to break the habit and start doing it. You showing that it does not need to be perfect, and that you are allowed and can smudge the underlining really inspired me and help me to kick my misguided habit
I have always felt the same. But I am learning to make these experiences my own. I also think maybe someday down the road someone else reads the book and in seeing my notes, finds something special to them
Could you elaborate on this please? I have git plugin for Obsidian which I use to backup the vault. But I don't know what you meant by precommit hook and using set -e.
Chuck, OMG, this is the most brilliant idea you have ever expressed here! Thank you so much for sharing this. I already use Obsidian and I am going to use it as a 2nd brain for cybersecurity, coding, and product design. The thing that I was kind of dreading was the whole publishing thing. I know that Obsidian offers their own way to publish my second brain, but I wanted to make it more special. Thanks to you, I now have a new cool project to work on when I have learned enough coding to make it happen. Thanks!!
Instead of doing robocopy all the time, you can make a symlink between those two folders. on windows (as powershell admin): New-Item -Path -ItemType SymbolicLink -Value
@@k_469 It's counter part of your private key (what you never show to anybody). Public key is something what anybody can use to crypt things, but cannot decrypt, because only private key can decrypt thing what has been crypted with public key. Sounds strange, I know. It's like open door what you can close, but can't open without right key.
Great video. On a similar note, there's Quartz, an open-source version of Obsidian Publish. I use v3 (which uses Hugo). But it is not building a blog, but the second brain based on your Obsidian, with all backlinks and graph views. Besides blogs, you can also share notes (if that is something you like, similar to a second brain).
There is always a story for some one. This is so true. You can defnatly benifit others by sharing. Awesome your learning another lang. I wish you the best. thanks for inspiring all of us on YT land.
Hey Chuck! I had sort-of already done some of what you did here. I created a Hugo Blog back in September. The main differences for me were the different theme, the different services I used (I just set it up on Gitlab Pages and used Namecheap as my domain provider (as I also already had a domain)). I also didn't bother creating a complete pipeline. My setup is just the blog updating when I add a new post and push it to the repo, then the pipeline runs and the post is there within a minute or so.
the algorithm is really crazy! I didn't watch any "blog related" videos for the past months but I just started (restarted) my blog few hours ago and this video pops up! I like it! 🤣
Hey brother, thank you for posting this, I've been sitting on a ton of thoughts and ideas, and have been wanting to finally put my thoughts into a blog. I appreciate this super-easy guide. I use obsidian for my D&D games, so it's comfortable using for this stuff too, and I've used hugo in the past as well, so you ticked all the boxes I needed. Hope you have a happy holidays!
Thanks to you and this video, I have started exploring how I can use Obsidian in my life. I see many new possibilities! Thank you! I am also starting a blog but have not decided how I want to do it yet. I am going to test your complete methodology on one of my Raspberry Pi 5 systems.
Recently, I’ve been interested in writing what I have done to my home lab and share it as an experience and tutorial in a form of pdf or blog. After watching your video, I may not be using your approach to write blogs. But it is definitely a good motivation to make me write more.
Hey @NetworkChuck I recently started blog writing. Happy to see your video about the blog. I recently started following you and your work. Keep rocking!
thats so cool! I actually wanted to make a blog and i already use obsidian for writing lots of my ideas. i think this workflow might actually work very well for me :)
good stuff Mister Chuck. It's a valuable point that we may not think what we have to contribute will add value to an already over-crowded conversation, but there is someone(s) out needing to hear an idea in a way that can only come from our individual perspective. 🙂
I need to check out this book. I have heard of the second brain and have built my own knowledge base inside of Notion. I like the idea of also transferring this to a blog to share it with others
Hugo is great! I use it to showcase the thesis works of our students every year. It takes less than 0.5 seconds to generate like 500 pages. Also great for archiving
Your work on building a "2nd brain" compelled me to ask that you share with us how you are integrating various technologies, apps, and techniques to build a "2nd Brain." Imagine a world where knowledge workers could seamlessly organize and access their accumulated research/wisdom instantly, similar to a "2nd Brain" -- unleashing a powerhouse of intellectual productivity. This is the promise of the "2nd brain" = a personalized, external memory that augments our capabilities. Perhaps you could start an exclusive TH-cam channel, an online academy, or even a masterclass series - where individuals could delve deeper into building their "2nd Brain." I, for one, would be a paid subscriber, eager to learn from your insights. Thx for considering this post. I believe you are uniquely positioned to transform the "2nd Brain" movement.
explore a bit about zetelkastan style of making notes . there is a whole series about it on level1techs too which introduced me to obsidian and paperlesNG making written and printed pages searchable.
I've actually learnt to do all of that manually but never worked on doing a script to automate it all! I'm learning Python on the side so I will definitely try to understand and learn from your script so I could do something similar to get it working for my Hugo setup. Thanks Chuck :)
I've recorded more than 15 hours of Obsidian walkthroughs on the channel. I love that program with passion. It is the core of my entire [awesome] life. Glad to see you're a convert, too. 🙏
Funnily I got really serious about blogging this year to journal what I've learned! Currently using good old WordPress as my back-end, can't complain! I then posted my first TH-cam video also recently because people saw my blog and asked me to do video-form content of my blog!
I still wanna meet this guy cause this i literally some of what has been going on in my head and I've made some starts but had the hardest time fleshing them out.
This video is far past me right now lol. I love obsidian and have been learning how to use that. Also just started linux with endeavouros so I can really have control and understanding of my computer. It's amazing how moving away from windows ,for me, lead me to Linux. Which made me use the terminal. That got me interested in better organization . Then markdown with obsidian. And then trying to learn some python and Godot. I just needed to realize I can shape my user experience on the computer to be exactly what I need it to be. And understand i have to build that. Great delivery ! Very well done. I hope to have a better grasp of this soon. Thank you
A suggestion: instead of starting robocopy after each change you can create a symbolic link for obsidian folder in the Hugo directory. Then any change in obsidian will be visible immediately in Hugo folder.
I would really like to see your obsidian vault and overall your productivity system. I can't imagine to manage so much projects at once without a system in the background
OneNote Pros: very polished "''What you see is what you get" display, Cons: vendor lock in. There is no good way to get your notes out of OneNote Obsidian: Pros: all your notes are MarkDown files. You can move them, edit them, do whatever you want. Cons: Its just markdown. You have to type all your notes in MarkDown and if MarkDown can't do it, you can't do it.
I use OneNote at work because 1) I don't get a choice and 2) I have a very specific use case and it works for that, but Obsidian is night and day better and I definitely recommend checking it out.
Crayz timing. I just built something similar over the weekend and ended up with an abhorrent Dockerfile. I'll definitely take some tips from this one! Thank for posting!
Thank you for this Video/Tutorial. Great as aways. Can you please make a Tutorial (show us a good Tool) for DMS (Document Management System) and automation? 👍
Hi NetworkChuck Really like how you see the idea of a second brain and that sharing is a very valuable thing (and of course sharing how you technically do that with a TH-cam tutorial). Maybe I can also share something (as a windows guy) - installing hugo in windows can be easily done with winget: "winget install Hugo.Hugo.Extended". I am enjoying winget more and more every day. Installing my common tools on multiple PCs, updating software, or using some winget script to do all of that automatically (yes i am lazy). Maybe that is some new helpful information, or some topic for future ideas ;) Maybe I'll comment it on your github ... *thinking* Many thanks for sharing your ideas and this particular "project".
I am really interested in doing this, but I at the same time... I used the fabric stuff you shared and it was amazing... until it broke and now I am stuck trying to use a tool that I didn't make, and I barely understand, and while it was fun and useful when it worked... now I can't use it. I feel like if I followed this tutorial I would again have a shiny new tool I don't understand that when it breaks I won't be able to use it. I love how cool and fascinating all your projects are, but at the same time I also think I need to pursue simplicity and fewer tools and not relying so much on technology I don't understand. I think I will definitely check out that book though.
How is your audio SO good?! Please share your microphone and compressor/post-processing setup? I would be so grateful. Thanks for the incredible content!
your videos are always welcome in my feed, I love you micro-tools (like pbpaste in some other video and robocopy here) you share. Thanks a lot for your content! btw your 'About' & 'Showcase' in the blog gets 404 haha
Love this. Thought of this exact same idea but never executed on it. My idea was to actualy set the obsidian Blog Workspace to the Hugo Markdown Folder or possibly set a symlink to the Obsidian Folder.
I haven't read the book, although it looks interesting. I will say that I have a similar pipeline for a Hugo blog. It's not integrated with my note-taking system, as that workflow pre-dated my use of Trilium, but I write the Markdown locally in a git repo, commit and push it to my self-hosted Forgejo instance, and then my VPS pulls that and executes a post-commit hook to redeploy the live site from the main branch at that point in time. Looks like the only thing I'm missing is that integration. The flip side is that I don't seem to need the complexity of a webhook and any Github actions; I just use a cron job to do a git pull every 15 minutes or so, and then the rebuild takes place automatically.
Thanks, Chuck, another great video. I started using Obsidian in the last six months, and I love it. This is the next step. Had a look at the blog, your thoughts on AI and God are very thought-provoking. God Bless....
The benefits don't stop there either! My favorite part of MacOS is all the weirdness that forces you to go out and find another operating system. Using a carraige-return char for line breaking ought to be a felony. The world runs on linux and the failure of Apple to realize and adapt to that fact can only be considered deliberate and vindictive.
Dude it's so weird to see someone else going down a similar path... I also plan to do a blog with hugo, started learning Japanese this year. I did leave obsidian behind for neovim though....whole new rabbit hole 😂
You should really just use hugo's command `new` to create new posts. This will already create the file with all the frontmatter metadata by default and in the correct directory.
I think it would be cool to have a scheduled task to automatically run the updateblog script so you could get your thoughts out there and have it auto update at a set interval. Maybe even some checks to only update if it detects any changes.
I just deployed my self-hosted Obsidian and Sync last week. Gonna give this a go. And I already have a Tech blog using Ghost but would love to try this. My blog is around Entra and Intune.
What happened with your CPTS journey? You were the most guy that motivated me to take it instead of PJPT, I started it way after you and I'm 50% there. Would like to know where are you at in your journey
id say no ;) and I wanted to ask what tools and config he uses for his shell. that might be an interresting video in itself... or even a Blog Post 🙂 @NetworkChuck
Great content as always! Can I suggest that you have a subscription link on your blog where we can receive emails and choose whether we want instant or weekly emails with links to your posts. This next idea is not so clear or straight forward but how about having AI create an audio reading of the post and incorporate an audio player in the post with a speed adjuster and have it skip over code lines. Seeing and hearing simultaneously helps my brain consume information more completely and in a timely manner. Tall order obviously but if anyone could pull it off it would be you!
If you ever come to live in Japan, 🇯🇵 I would be happy to grab a coffee with you! ☕️ Specially if you visit/move to Kanto area. I’m a missionary and filmmaker in Yokohama. Your work always inspires me. 😊
The most inspiring thing to me was learning you have 6 kids and still do all of this. Now I have no excuses with only 2 :D Oh, and I see you're also using PARA :D Great way to organize.
So instead of running the script each time after hitting save. Couldnt you use a tool like fswatch or inotify to monitor the directory for changes. Then IF it sees a change it just fires the script?
Someone out there needs your story. Share it now: hostinger.com/networkchuck10
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I’m creating the ultimate blog pipeline. After reading How to Build a Second Brain by Tiago Forte, I realized just how valuable my ideas are-and I needed a way to share them with the world. It starts with Obsidian for note-taking and organizing my thoughts, then Hugo formats everything into a beautiful website. From there, GitHub takes care of versioning, and finally, a webhook publishes it all seamlessly to Hostinger. In this video, I’ll walk you through how I built this pipeline and how you can create your own blog to share your ideas with the world.
✍📚 Read my blog: blog.networkchuck.com/
📃📃📃Link/Guide/Documentation: blog.networkchuck.com/posts/my-insane-blog-pipeline/
🔥🔥Join the NetworkChuck Academy!: ntck.co/NCAcademy
**Sponsored by Hostinger
TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - Why I’m creating a blog
2:39 - Blogging Pipeline
4:51 - Writing your blog in Obsidian
6:05 - Formatting with Hugo
9:08 - Installing Hugo Themes
12:02 - Syncing Obsidian with Hugo
14:21 - Using Frontmatter in Obsidian
15:28 - Handling Images in Obsidian
18:58 - Pushing your site to GitHub
24:37 - Setting up domain in Hostinger
28:16 - Showing the manual workflow
30:14 - The Mega Script
Hi Chuck
You lost a view somehow
awesome video !! 🤘 Just wondering, how to remove the exclamation point that appears before the images? 28:18
I'm so trying this out - I love automation. I have the day off tomorrow, so should be able to smash it in one sesh! Awesome video, thanks :)
Okay, this is Genius. I m doing this as soon as I start my xmas hols. Cheers Chucky
You're an amazing dude: having 6 girls, and still doing these videos, maintaining a community. That's hard work!
That might explain, why he is always soooo annoying hectic and nervous and fidgety and twitchy and agitated… Awful! The topics are interestig but it's impossible to learn something from his videos. He's rushing through and skipping all the explanations one needed to understand, what he's doing…
@@Zeitgeistpionier I disagree, but to each their own.
I honestly like his style... there's room for improvement, but he's got a vibe. and i dig it...
Is not sin?
@@Zeitgeistpionier I also disagree...
Long time I.T. guy here. Always amazes me when someone like you comes along and can show even us old "Boomers" some new and great ideas. Just set up mine. Went with a little more "complex" of a theme, so it took me a little longer, but all worked out in the end. Thanks for everything you do. Looking forward to many more.
In case anyone else uses putty. Ran into an issue with the SSH Key. Would not use it to authenticate. Need Pageant.exe running when I run the script. Added the following to get it working in my Windows system. Environmental Variable GIT_SSH = C:\Program Files\PuTTY\plink.exe Then add the following to the script. # Set path for SSH key
$sshKeyPath = "C:\Users\%USERNAME%\.ssh\id_rsa.ppk"
# Start Pageant and add the SSH key
Write-Host "Starting Pageant and adding SSH key..."
Start-Process "C:\Program Files\PuTTY\pageant.exe" -ArgumentList $sshKeyPath
# Wait for Pageant to load the key
Start-Sleep -Seconds 2
For the images, you can just change your settings in Obsidian to automatically place them in the folder you specify. Just go to Settings > Files and Links > Default location for new attachments
Hi you are right its the vault folder , but when I run the script the original image will be removed from the markdown and yet will not be showed in the website , just the image link, did you know how to solve that././
I've never heard my own name spoken so often in a youtube video
Hey Hugo!
The man, the myth, the legend
Underrated comment
Bro, Chuck said you're amazing!
Read your comment before the video and was like "What?". Then watched it and just got it hahahah
I've currently been self teaching myself web development and was already in the process of working on my own blog using CMS for practice. This video came at a great time where I've been slowing down on that project and losing motivation. This looks absolutely up my alley and I will be working on it soon
I rarely comment on videos - but i just wanna tell you how much respect i have for you. It ofcourse started as a "Im learning about this subject, and this cool dude with a nice beard a nice video about it" but now i watch most of your videoes simply because youre so positivy and full of energy. I have so much respect for you!
Maybe an odd thing to complement but I love your squiggles. I always struggle to take notes and underline inside of my books, from a odd feeling that books are a treasure, I shouldn't ruin. I try to break the habit and start doing it. You showing that it does not need to be perfect, and that you are allowed and can smudge the underlining really inspired me and help me to kick my misguided habit
I have always felt the same. But I am learning to make these experiences my own. I also think maybe someday down the road someone else reads the book and in seeing my notes, finds something special to them
Hey Chuck, you changed my life in ways you can't Imagine. God Bless you man
I would like to see your obsidian vault tour and overall your productivity system
Just put the scripts in a precommit hook. Use `set -e`. Then install the git plugin for Obsidian. Deploy all from Obsidian.
Could you elaborate on this please? I have git plugin for Obsidian which I use to backup the vault. But I don't know what you meant by precommit hook and using set -e.
Chuck, OMG, this is the most brilliant idea you have ever expressed here! Thank you so much for sharing this. I already use Obsidian and I am going to use it as a 2nd brain for cybersecurity, coding, and product design. The thing that I was kind of dreading was the whole publishing thing. I know that Obsidian offers their own way to publish my second brain, but I wanted to make it more special. Thanks to you, I now have a new cool project to work on when I have learned enough coding to make it happen. Thanks!!
New upload, gotta leave my homework and watch this.
EXACTLY
Yes same
literally what im doing lol
DISTRACTIONS
@zamzamkidz nope motivation
Instead of doing robocopy all the time, you can make a symlink between those two folders.
on windows (as powershell admin): New-Item -Path -ItemType SymbolicLink -Value
I was asking myself if there is a technical reason why he didn't use this method that seems to be much simpler
@@Fl4shBack51M would git and github work the same with a symbolic link though?
Yes, I wanted to say that 😂
Woke up wanting to blog again, came to youtube, this was the first video. Wild.
There was no real need to blur your public SSH key... It's public! :-D
I know right! I thought the same thing.
If its so public then what is it?
His editor didn’t know
@@k_469 It's counter part of your private key (what you never show to anybody). Public key is something what anybody can use to crypt things, but cannot decrypt, because only private key can decrypt thing what has been crypted with public key. Sounds strange, I know. It's like open door what you can close, but can't open without right key.
@@k_469 This has to be the most stupidest comment I've seen all month.
Great video. On a similar note, there's Quartz, an open-source version of Obsidian Publish. I use v3 (which uses Hugo). But it is not building a blog, but the second brain based on your Obsidian, with all backlinks and graph views. Besides blogs, you can also share notes (if that is something you like, similar to a second brain).
I had to scroll longer than I thought to find a fellow quartz person o7
So much value in one video. Just wow!
There is always a story for some one. This is so true. You can defnatly benifit others by sharing. Awesome your learning another lang. I wish you the best. thanks for inspiring all of us on YT land.
Hey Chuck! I had sort-of already done some of what you did here. I created a Hugo Blog back in September. The main differences for me were the different theme, the different services I used (I just set it up on Gitlab Pages and used Namecheap as my domain provider (as I also already had a domain)). I also didn't bother creating a complete pipeline. My setup is just the blog updating when I add a new post and push it to the repo, then the pipeline runs and the post is there within a minute or so.
I know some people like to mark up their own books but my god it was like watching wartime footage the way you treated that book at the beginning.
the algorithm is really crazy! I didn't watch any "blog related" videos for the past months but I just started (restarted) my blog few hours ago and this video pops up! I like it! 🤣
Thanks, man! I was literally looking for this, and you did an amazing job with the tutorial. I just finished setting mine up!
Hey brother, thank you for posting this, I've been sitting on a ton of thoughts and ideas, and have been wanting to finally put my thoughts into a blog. I appreciate this super-easy guide. I use obsidian for my D&D games, so it's comfortable using for this stuff too, and I've used hugo in the past as well, so you ticked all the boxes I needed. Hope you have a happy holidays!
Thanks to you and this video, I have started exploring how I can use Obsidian in my life. I see many new possibilities! Thank you! I am also starting a blog but have not decided how I want to do it yet. I am going to test your complete methodology on one of my Raspberry Pi 5 systems.
Congratulations dude, amazing video, I have 3 kids it’s a wonderful journey
Recently, I’ve been interested in writing what I have done to my home lab and share it as an experience and tutorial in a form of pdf or blog. After watching your video, I may not be using your approach to write blogs. But it is definitely a good motivation to make me write more.
6 girls that is amazing. I have 4 myself and it is a hell of a joy everyday. Amazing video man, another good book to read for me.
Many of your videos are inside of my second brain in notion helping me through the world of tech hacking coding etc
6 girls is INSANE 👏🏻
Kept trying for a boy and gave up lol
Just in time. Lovely wonderful coincidences. Your coffe for the future is promised from my side. Thx
Such an ambitious video......I want to do it! Love it
Hey @NetworkChuck I recently started blog writing. Happy to see your video about the blog. I recently started following you and your work. Keep rocking!
Thanks to you, I’ve finally started my blog!
thats so cool!
I actually wanted to make a blog and i already use obsidian for writing lots of my ideas. i think this workflow might actually work very well for me :)
you're a beast - have learned so much cool shit - man - what a great job you do. Keep it up!
and I have 1000 projects from your videos, I watch on my appleTV so I couldn't comment, but had to run to my laptop on this video
good stuff Mister Chuck. It's a valuable point that we may not think what we have to contribute will add value to an already over-crowded conversation, but there is someone(s) out needing to hear an idea in a way that can only come from our individual perspective. 🙂
I might just steal this. I like this idea better than the WordPress site that I have with hostinger.
I need to check out this book. I have heard of the second brain and have built my own knowledge base inside of Notion. I like the idea of also transferring this to a blog to share it with others
There's a tool that simplifies that task, it takes all the notes in markdown format and converts them to a static page, it is called "Quartz".
Hugo is great! I use it to showcase the thesis works of our students every year. It takes less than 0.5 seconds to generate like 500 pages. Also great for archiving
After watching this video, I’ve come to a conclusion. Never lending this guy any book ever!
33:03 now the last step is to automate these scripts for them to automatically check if there are changes & run themselves
I love that this took you over 3h to do. Like a normal person does :)
Your work on building a "2nd brain" compelled me to ask that you share with us how you are integrating various technologies, apps, and techniques to build a "2nd Brain." Imagine a world where knowledge workers could seamlessly organize and access their accumulated research/wisdom instantly, similar to a "2nd Brain" -- unleashing a powerhouse of intellectual productivity. This is the promise of the "2nd brain" = a personalized, external memory that augments our capabilities.
Perhaps you could start an exclusive TH-cam channel, an online academy, or even a masterclass series - where individuals could delve deeper into building their "2nd Brain." I, for one, would be a paid subscriber, eager to learn from your insights.
Thx for considering this post. I believe you are uniquely positioned to transform the "2nd Brain" movement.
explore a bit about zetelkastan style of making notes . there is a whole series about it on level1techs too which introduced me to obsidian and paperlesNG making written and printed pages searchable.
Watched you forever, you are amazing! X
I've actually learnt to do all of that manually but never worked on doing a script to automate it all! I'm learning Python on the side so I will definitely try to understand and learn from your script so I could do something similar to get it working for my Hugo setup. Thanks Chuck :)
I've recorded more than 15 hours of Obsidian walkthroughs on the channel. I love that program with passion. It is the core of my entire [awesome] life. Glad to see you're a convert, too. 🙏
Funnily I got really serious about blogging this year to journal what I've learned! Currently using good old WordPress as my back-end, can't complain!
I then posted my first TH-cam video also recently because people saw my blog and asked me to do video-form content of my blog!
I still wanna meet this guy cause this i literally some of what has been going on in my head and I've made some starts but had the hardest time fleshing them out.
This video is far past me right now lol. I love obsidian and have been learning how to use that. Also just started linux with endeavouros so I can really have control and understanding of my computer. It's amazing how moving away from windows ,for me, lead me to Linux. Which made me use the terminal. That got me interested in better organization . Then markdown with obsidian. And then trying to learn some python and Godot. I just needed to realize I can shape my user experience on the computer to be exactly what I need it to be. And understand i have to build that. Great delivery ! Very well done. I hope to have a better grasp of this soon. Thank you
A suggestion: instead of starting robocopy after each change you can create a symbolic link for obsidian folder in the Hugo directory. Then any change in obsidian will be visible immediately in Hugo folder.
I'm really looking forward to the Obsidian video. I hope it comes soon 😮
I would really like to see your obsidian vault and overall your productivity system.
I can't imagine to manage so much projects at once without a system in the background
This was VERY geeky, but your enthusiasm is great! Definitely going to check out Obsidian vs OneNote.
Obsidian claps though.
OneNote Pros: very polished "''What you see is what you get" display, Cons: vendor lock in. There is no good way to get your notes out of OneNote
Obsidian: Pros: all your notes are MarkDown files. You can move them, edit them, do whatever you want. Cons: Its just markdown. You have to type all your notes in MarkDown and if MarkDown can't do it, you can't do it.
I use OneNote at work because 1) I don't get a choice and 2) I have a very specific use case and it works for that, but Obsidian is night and day better and I definitely recommend checking it out.
Crayz timing. I just built something similar over the weekend and ended up with an
abhorrent Dockerfile. I'll definitely take some tips from this one! Thank for posting!
Dude - you must be from the Midwest... "Git n Go" brings back a ton of memories. Glad you took time to create that 2 second montage. :)
Ah you just said you were from Texas, yup that would do it. I grew up in Missouri.
Thank you for this Video/Tutorial. Great as aways. Can you please make a Tutorial (show us a good Tool) for DMS (Document Management System) and automation? 👍
Hi NetworkChuck
Really like how you see the idea of a second brain and that sharing is a very valuable thing (and of course sharing how you technically do that with a TH-cam tutorial).
Maybe I can also share something (as a windows guy) - installing hugo in windows can be easily done with winget: "winget install Hugo.Hugo.Extended".
I am enjoying winget more and more every day. Installing my common tools on multiple PCs, updating software, or using some winget script to do all of that automatically (yes i am lazy).
Maybe that is some new helpful information, or some topic for future ideas ;)
Maybe I'll comment it on your github ... *thinking*
Many thanks for sharing your ideas and this particular "project".
I am really interested in doing this, but I at the same time... I used the fabric stuff you shared and it was amazing... until it broke and now I am stuck trying to use a tool that I didn't make, and I barely understand, and while it was fun and useful when it worked... now I can't use it. I feel like if I followed this tutorial I would again have a shiny new tool I don't understand that when it breaks I won't be able to use it. I love how cool and fascinating all your projects are, but at the same time I also think I need to pursue simplicity and fewer tools and not relying so much on technology I don't understand. I think I will definitely check out that book though.
I really like this one, also I spied your Chemex. You're such a coffee fiend! 😂
Muito bom cara, faço o meu amanhã (really cool man, I'll start my tomorrow )
best video every, love your blog posts so far
*ever
His keyboard sound is amazing and satisfying 😍
How is your audio SO good?! Please share your microphone and compressor/post-processing setup? I would be so grateful. Thanks for the incredible content!
Incredible Chuck !
your videos are always welcome in my feed, I love you micro-tools (like pbpaste in some other video and robocopy here) you share.
Thanks a lot for your content! btw your 'About' & 'Showcase' in the blog gets 404 haha
Didn’t expect you to make a video on Obsidian BTW I use daily notes
I was thinking "this seems like a very respectable man" and then he said "my favorite text editor: VSCode in Windows".
it's like he was reading my mind and then answered:
yes, i use windows )))
Love this. Thought of this exact same idea but never executed on it.
My idea was to actualy set the obsidian Blog Workspace to the Hugo Markdown Folder or possibly set a symlink to the Obsidian Folder.
I haven't read the book, although it looks interesting.
I will say that I have a similar pipeline for a Hugo blog. It's not integrated with my note-taking system, as that workflow pre-dated my use of Trilium, but I write the Markdown locally in a git repo, commit and push it to my self-hosted Forgejo instance, and then my VPS pulls that and executes a post-commit hook to redeploy the live site from the main branch at that point in time. Looks like the only thing I'm missing is that integration.
The flip side is that I don't seem to need the complexity of a webhook and any Github actions; I just use a cron job to do a git pull every 15 minutes or so, and then the rebuild takes place automatically.
Thanks, Chuck, another great video. I started using Obsidian in the last six months, and I love it. This is the next step. Had a look at the blog, your thoughts on AI and God are very thought-provoking. God Bless....
With MacOS you can use Automator to run the script automatically when it sees changes in the posts folder.
The benefits don't stop there either! My favorite part of MacOS is all the weirdness that forces you to go out and find another operating system. Using a carraige-return char for line breaking ought to be a felony. The world runs on linux and the failure of Apple to realize and adapt to that fact can only be considered deliberate and vindictive.
Dude it's so weird to see someone else going down a similar path... I also plan to do a blog with hugo, started learning Japanese this year. I did leave obsidian behind for neovim though....whole new rabbit hole 😂
You should really just use hugo's command `new` to create new posts. This will already create the file with all the frontmatter metadata by default and in the correct directory.
Bro, 6 girls? You're a really lucky man. I hope you all be happy together.
I Finished my hw and i can watch this video , relaxing in my bed and sleep!! Thank you
I think it would be cool to have a scheduled task to automatically run the updateblog script so you could get your thoughts out there and have it auto update at a set interval. Maybe even some checks to only update if it detects any changes.
This sounds like a great book.
🤔
Sir Please make a video on kali linux install in 2024
I just deployed my self-hosted Obsidian and Sync last week. Gonna give this a go. And I already have a Tech blog using Ghost but would love to try this. My blog is around Entra and Intune.
Interesting, link?
Been waiting on your Obsidian video for MONTHS. Stop teasing me
It'd be great if you could make a video tour about Obsidian and how you use it.
I just saw this posted and I was like wait what?
What happened with your CPTS journey? You were the most guy that motivated me to take it instead of PJPT, I started it way after you and I'm 50% there.
Would like to know where are you at in your journey
Does powershell usually look like that?
id say no ;) and I wanted to ask what tools and config he uses for his shell. that might be an interresting video in itself... or even a Blog Post 🙂 @NetworkChuck
@@iwh7 Yeah.
@@OscarZhou511That is the new Windows Terminal. PowerShell is different.
Thank you so much for this 🔥
Yes!! A New Upload!!!
And of course within the first 8 hours, you've got PRs against your blog repo.
We love to see it. :D
New video need to watch it even if there is english pre-board tomorrow
can't you automatically run the powershell script as soon as the note is saved inside obsidian ?
I like your windows terminal theme.
Great content as always! Can I suggest that you have a subscription link on your blog where we can receive emails and choose whether we want instant or weekly emails with links to your posts. This next idea is not so clear or straight forward but how about having AI create an audio reading of the post and incorporate an audio player in the post with a speed adjuster and have it skip over code lines. Seeing and hearing simultaneously helps my brain consume information more completely and in a timely manner. Tall order obviously but if anyone could pull it off it would be you!
"Much is given" Much is required. I see you 🐟.
I got hostinger ads even in start of video (TH-cam ads), lol
If you ever come to live in Japan, 🇯🇵 I would be happy to grab a coffee with you! ☕️ Specially if you visit/move to Kanto area. I’m a missionary and filmmaker in Yokohama. Your work always inspires me. 😊
I admire your work! take care! cheers!
The most inspiring thing to me was learning you have 6 kids and still do all of this. Now I have no excuses with only 2 :D Oh, and I see you're also using PARA :D Great way to organize.
So instead of running the script each time after hitting save. Couldnt you use a tool like fswatch or inotify to monitor the directory for changes. Then IF it sees a change it just fires the script?