Obsibian Template for Gatsby Theme Primer Wiki

👋Another Obsibian template that use gatsby-theme-primer-wiki, Welcome to your new Foam Knowledge Base!

Examples

• Demo - (Source)

• Everything I Know by Owen - (Source)

• Foam Demo - (Source)

• Obsidian Demo - (Source)

• Gatsby Starter Demo - (Source)

Features

• Support Local search, full-text search.

• Support Graph Visualisation with canvas.

• Support Tags, Tags First, Generating tag pages, also connecting with graph visualisation.

• Support Gitbook styled SUMMARY.md for custom sidebar.

• Support [[WikiLink]], But you'd better use Link Reference Definitions with extensions, "foam.edit.linkReferenceDefinitions": "withExtensions"

• Support Light/Dark Theme

• Custom Header Nav Items

• Nested sidebar

• Support Google Analytics

• Support Sitemap/Robot

• SEO optimization

Principles

Here are my main ideas/principles in designing this theme.

1. No vendor lock-in. The less vendor features you use, the better you'll be able to migrate, including this theme. So we should only write standard markdown. I like [[WikiLink]], but I love standard markdown more. So we should always use standard markdown link [text](https://example.com), or use Wikilink with Link Reference Definitions, and don't use any vendor locked-in feature. That give us the capability change our theme, or hosted place.

2. Use meta data instead of special characters. We should use tags as the document's metadata, not #tag in the plain text.

3. Use tags instead of categories. Minimal subfolders.

Quick Start

New Wiki

1. Press "Use this template" button at obsidian-template-gatsby-theme-primer-wiki (that's this repository!) to fork it to your own GitHub account. If you want to keep your thoughts to yourself, remember to set the repository private.

2. Clone the repository to your local machine and open it in Obsidian

3. Delete all .md files you don't need, Change Site settings at .layouts/gatsby-config.js, change your CNAME at .layouts/static/CNAME, change your icon at .layouts/static/logo.png, commit your changes, and push to github, change your page settings at Github, make sure you set the page branch to gh-pages, then when github actions runed, you can visit your site.

Exist Wiki

1. Clone this repo to your local machine

git clone https://github.com/theowenyoung/obsidian-template-gatsby-theme-primer-wiki.git

2. Copy .layouts, .github .gitignore to your wiki folder.

Local Preview

cd .layouts

npm i

npm start

Deploy

Deploy to Github Pages, see .github/workflows/deploy.yml

Obsidian Quick Start

If you're in a hurry, here's some quick places to dive in:

• The Command palette contains most of the commands you need to work with Obsidian. Just press Ctrl/Cmd-P and start typing.
• How to create new notes.
• How to create internal links
• How to use Markdown to Format your notes
• How to embed files, or embed other notes
• Keyboard shortcuts
• How to open multiple files side by side
• Obsidian can be extended with plugins. Several are available by default, and can be enabled or disabled according to your needs.

If you want a more thorough introduction, including a bit about our philosophy, check out Obsidian.

And if you'd like a gentle introduction, or just want to get started but don't know how, head over to Basic note taking.

If you are a Catalyst supporter, and want to turn on Insider Builds, see Insider builds.

Workflows

Obsidian is a tool that can be used in many ways, from a simple list of notes to a very powerful knowledge management system. We suggest you start at your own pace, and build it into the tool you need.

Here are a few ways to get started:

If you want to just start taking notes, check out Basic note taking

If you already have a collection of notes in markdown format, just choose them for your Vault. Choose "Vault" in the lower left and select the directory your notes are in.

If you have notes from Roam Research, Notion, or other systems, here's how to import them.

If you'd like to know more about Obsidian, you can read about our story.

By the way, you can feel free to edit these help docs, but when you open it again, they will be overwritten. So, don't put anything in them you want to keep.

I have questions.

Then you should join our community!. We have active Discord and Forums, and the community is generally quite helpful.