Obsidian is the source of truth for most of my writings¹ and I though it would be interesting to post to Micro.blog directly from it. In the past I explored several applications such as Ulysses, iA Writer, and many others which allow publishing to Micro.blog, but they don’t work for me, they don’t reflect the way I think and take notes. Obsidian does.

So I searched on Micro.blog and found this post from @philbowell:

I wonder if there is a way to post to Micro.blog from Obsidian. 🤔

And nope, there isn’t. So I took the challenge.

Obsidian isn’t a native application and I can’t remember when it was the last time I wrote something which isn’t compiled to run on an specific architecture 👨‍💻, so I had to learn TypeScript and npm, and spent a good amount of time making Visual Studio Code look pretty (stealing ideas from my friend Atila).

Luckily for me, the TypeScript syntax isn’t that different from Swift, so in a matter of hours I had something working. Since the Obsidian Plugin architecture is OOP, I decided to go with OOP using MVVM, without third-party dependencies to avoid taking unnecessary complexity into Obsidian.

The result of all this is Micro.publish, my Obsidian plugin to publish to Micro.blog. The plugin isn’t available to install from Obsidian’s Community Plugins yet since they review all the plugins there, but it’s possible to install it directly from GitHub by following some manual steps.

Micro.publish has the features I need. It allows

• setting default tags
• setting the default post visibility
• setting a default blog (for those with more than one M.b blog)

And before publishing, it’s possible to override these default settings for the post being published.

More features are planned, and will be coming soon.

First version of my Micro.blog plugin for Obsidian is ready 👨‍💻 Some feature are missing - as expected for a first release -, but I plan to add them in the future. E.g.,

• Blog selection
• Set categories/tags

Currently it allows users to

• Set the default post visibility for new posts
• Set the post title
• Open post, preview, and edit URLs after publishing the post

The plugin can be found on GitHub. The next step is to submit it to Obsidian’s Community Plugins.

Important: The name isn’t final since this is not an official Micro.blog product. I have to find a better name for it.

Some screenshots:

Preferences

Command

Review

Confirmation

Two weeks ago I decided to get my leather tools in the cellar and make something. Since I have more than one pouch - a small one, and a bigger when I’m carrying my Fuji - I decided to make something to put my pocket notebooks - which I also make -, cards, pocket knife, and flashlight. This way it’s easier to move all my EDC from one pouch to another.

Leather work is fun, and for me it works for medidation or to listen to podcasts I need to focus on.

I’m pretty happy with the final result. Below the pocket knife and flashlight.

And the one for pocket notebook, cards, and small pen.

I’ve also made a strap for FFP2 masks, because I hate those elastics around my ears.