After some back and forth between Micro.blog and Obsidian Publish, I’m finally finding some peace. Since March 2025, when I decided to go back to Micro.blog, I’ve been building a smaller and public version of my Obsidian Vault.

I believe I thought Publish was the answer to that idea because everything was already in Obsidian, but there are so many pieces missing: from a reliable RSS feed to JavaScript and other web tools.

Every single post and page on my site was and still is an Obsidian note, which I uploaded using Publish in the past and the Micro.publish plugin now. But going back to a ‘normal site’ opened up so many possibilities for things I always wanted to have on my site.

For example, the Library, which I think turned out to be a beautiful page with the thumbnails of books I read, is a representation of a collection of posts about the books. And that also works in my Obsidian Vault using Bases. I started with just a few, but I keep adding new ones all the time.

More recently, I created the Map with pins linked to posts about each city. It was created on top of tags that are converted into categories when Micro.publish sends the note to the site. Again, the tags also work on my Vault, but, of course, there are many more notes there. And, similar to the Library, for now, there are just a few cities on the website. But I’ll keep uploading new posts.

One thing Micro.blog has that I love is the Photos page. It’s automatically built based on images from posts, but I kept it hidden since March because it was a bit messy.

The mechanism of the page is pretty clever. Only .jpg files are added to the grid. So, I use .png files in all my how-to posts. But because of how I imported the posts from Obsidian Publish, everything was converted to .jpg, and I was not happy with that mess, so I decided to hide the page. I finally finished organizing that, and the page is now public.

And just like the Library and the Map, I use Bases filters in Obsidian to display my journal pictures. Some of those are the same photos you can now see on the public Photos page.

Another thing I could never do using Obsidian Publish was to create a system that would automatically show posts in Portuguese for visitors from Brazil and Portugal and in English for the rest of the world.

If I’m being honest, that was something I was always afraid of, thinking it would affect how Google and other search engines index the site. That’s why I never put too much energy into joining the two sites and domain names previously. To my surprise, though, there are now more visitors than the sum of the separate sites I had before. That’s something I would never have guessed.

In conclusion, a site is so much cooler to build than a social media page.