Sitemap setup

Last updated August 23, 2021 – Getting Started, 1 min read

Vault

I’m updating this file latestttttt Open new folder as vault and select the main digital garden folder.

Settings

.gitignore is set to ignore Obsidian system files, so you need to customize the settings from scratch.

Files & Links

Set default location for new notes to _notes
Set default location for attachments to assets/images
- Be careful not to select _site/assets. Instead, select the folder in your root directory.
For static pages like about.md, drag to _pages directory
- More on this in [[ Site Organization ]]

Make sure you’re working on notes in the _notes directory, not _site. Unfortunately, you’ll just have to put up with all the extra files in your Obsidian view since we can’t ignore Obsidian folders yet.

Wikilinks

By default, Obsidian uses wikilinks, or double bracketed links. They look [[like this]]. If you keep wikilinks enabled, you’ll also use proprietary Obsidian wiki embeds for images. They look like this: ![[image.png]]

This is not standard Markdown! So I wrote an update to the bidirectional links generator script that updates this to the proper HTML code.

Here’s a test image to make sure my plugin is working:

Read more about my fix at [[ Wiki Image Link Testing ]]

Template Plugin

This is a core Obsidian plugin that is turned off by default.

Under Core Plugins, enable “Templates”
Select obsidian-templates as the template folder
Set a hotkey for inserting a template to a file
Select note or page templates to insert front matter and variables

Suggested Plugins

These are community plugins built by independent developers.