How I Use Obsidian To Create a Blog Pipeline

I’ve finally got my blog posts organised within Obsidian. Here’s how I did it.

Getting things organised for blogging — time to declutter my blog folder. Image © Annette Raffan

Prior to this week, my blog posts in Obsidian were floating around in the ether that was the ‘BLOG’ folder. Published and unpublished mingled, and I didn’t really know what I was working on, nor what I should be working on. Combine that with; lists of ideas in various physical notebooks, several notes with lists of blog ideas, and two blogs which each had 10–20 ‘draft’ articles, and you can realise the need for some more structure!
What I needed was a blog pipeline.

(I really don’t know how you people with no folders whatsoever manage to survive; kudos 🤣)

My Blog Pipeline Requirements

I didn’t want this pipeline to be overcomplicated. It needed to be an efficient use of time and resources. My 5am brain takes a little while to get up to speed and I didn’t want complex YAML getting in the way. We all know that Obsidian can both be a wonderful note-taking and note-making tool, but it can also take us on a deep journey, where optimisation and integration are key and everything must be perfect! Well it’s never going to be perfect, so I was aiming for ‘it just works’, ‘it does what I need’ and ‘it’s easy’. But I also wanted something a little bit beyond base Obsidian…