Obsidian Powered Blog
I built my entire blog workflow around Obsidian, because it makes writing, organizing, and improving SEO way easier. Here’s how.
Reasons/Pros for Obsidian Blog:
1. Best Markdown Editing Experience
Markdown lets you focus purely on content while ensuring consistent, easy-to-read formatting. It’s the best choice for writing and structuring blog posts efficiently.
If you’re blogging in Markdown, you should use the best Markdown editor, and that’s Obsidian. Built specifically for Markdown, it has live preview, smooth formatting, and a distraction-free writing experience, making the blogging process faster and more intuitive.
2. Easy Internal Linking for SEO
Internal linking is the practice of linking between different pages on your own site, making it easy for visitors to discover other content on your website. Websites like Wikipedia use extensive internal linking to connect information, and that same strategy is great for a blog.
Strong internal linking boosts SEO and engagement. Search engines like Google prioritize well-structured sites with internal links, making it easier for them to crawl and index your content. This helps your blog rank higher while also keeping visitors on your site longer by guiding them to related posts.
Obsidian makes internal linking effortless with wiki-links. To create wiki links in Obsidian you write the file name inside of double brackets. So to create an internal link just write [[post-title]]
Info:
Markdown processors differ by framework, so wiki-links may not always convert to internal links automatically. You might need to use additional libraries or configurations to enable this feature. I used the
remark-wiki-linkplugin for my Astro website.
3. Graph View for Building Content Clusters
For a blog workflow, Obsidian’s Graph View acts as a content map, visually displaying how your posts connect. This helps ensure that your blog isn’t just a collection of isolated posts but a well-structured network of content that’s easy to navigate.
Graph View reveals gaps in content clusters, showing where new posts could strengthen your network of related topics. It helps generate ideas for posts, assists in cross-linking, and ensures your blog grows into a deep and well-organized web of knowledge.
4. Templates for Productivity Boosts
Instead of manually setting up the frontmatter, post structure, and formatting every time, you can use templates to streamline your workflow. This is especially useful if your blog follows a consistent format, such as including metadata, headings, or recurring sections in every post.
Templates allow you to jump straight to writing with minimal setup. Obsidian has built-in template features, but if you need more flexibility, plugins like Templater offer more advanced options.
5. Plugins to Enhance Your Blogging Workflow
Obsidian’s rich plugin ecosystem allows you to customize your workflow and optimize your writing process. While not every plugin will be useful for a blog-specific workflow, some can greatly improve efficiency, organization, and writing experience.
Here are some great plugins for blogging:
- mdx as md - Allows editing mdx files in obsidian (if your site uses mdx files)
- Templater - Advanced templates for quickly getting into writing
- Dataview - Create databases to help with organizing posts
- Typewriter Scroll (or similar) - Customize the writing experience of Obsidian
Please share (YouTube comments?) what plugins you think will be useful for blogging!
How to Set Up Obsidian Blog:
Using Obsidian for your blog is simple. Create an Obsidian Vault located in whatever directory/folder your markdown files are stored in.
Obsidian is just an editor for those files. Therefore, you can still use Git and your development can still hot-reload depending on the environment.
If you do use Git you will probably want to put the .obsidian folder in the .gitignore file so the Obsidian vault configuration files won’t be committed.
Final Thoughts:
Obsidian is a really useful blog writing tool. Try it out and configure your workflow to work for you.