journalx 0.0.2

journalx supercharges your text-based journal

Journalx: Supercharge your Obsidian Vault

Journalx makes it easy to use your Obsidian vault as the content source for your hugo website.

It's still in early stages and requires a lot of work, but it's useful right away if you have some key ingredients in place.

Prerequisites

• Python environment with Journalx installed
• Hugo blog setup

Your obsidian vault contains a lot of documents, but you want to publish only some them. Journalx handles:

• Automatically transfering documents that are tagged for publishing
• Transfers images to destination directory, and substitutes image paths in markdown
• [WIP] Watch dir for changes, and transfer on change
• [WIP] Build and publish after transfering documents
• [WIP] Handle other static assets other than files
• [WIP] Allow doc metadata to be specified by config file
• [WIP] Unit test for different scenarios
• [WIP] Better help messages

Commands

Publishing

config.ini file contains settings which dictate the base directory of your hugo website. To create the config if it's not present

jx init --publish-dir <publish-dir>

Add metadata to md documents in your vault. This is required for publishing which looks for metadata values publish: True and draft: False in the document's metadata header. If your documents don't have a yaml header (or only some of them do, not all), you can add it to all documents by

jx add-metadata

After you're done adding metadata, you can turn publish:True and draft:False on documents you want to publish. The publish command make sure that they'll be transfered to configured {publish_dir}/content/post directory while the images that are present in the document will be transfered to {publish_dir}/static/images and the image links will be updated.

jx publish