quartz VS obsidian-publish-mkdocs

As others have pointed out you don't "host" Obsidian - it's just a local collection of markdown files. But if you're asking about a self-hosted alternative to "Obsidian Publish" for creating a knowledgebase that others can answer, I'm Quartz[0], a static-site generator designed to turn Obsidian markdown files into a website. I'm building and it and hosting it on Gitlab Pages at work[1].

[0]: https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/

[1]: https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/hosting#gitlab-pages

I wonder if https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz was considered for this, though that project is more setup as an open source Obsidian publish replacement than a private PKMS

Shout out to Quartz, which produces a site similar to Obsidian Publish: https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/

(I would use Obsidian Publish, but it rendered far too slowly on some pages. I do use their excellent sync service though.)

https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/ + cloudflare, write in obsidian and publish with a git push

Quartz Docs

I'm using this template https://github.com/jobindjohn/obsidian-publish-mkdocs

While I encourage supporting the Obsidian team by paying, there are ways that you can get the same features without paying.

Sync - On iOS, you can use iCloud to sync your files between your Mac and iPhone. I imagine that there are more configuration options for this on Android.

Publish - lots of different ways to deploy your notes to a site. There's one repo that helps you publish with Mkdocs [1], and I'm sure there are other tools the community has created to solve this problem.

It may not be as simple to set up as Notion, but that's the price you pay for wanting a solution to be cheap, private, and let you own your own data.

[1] https://github.com/jobindjohn/obsidian-publish-mkdocs

This is the Github repo I forked mine from which has a great readme on how to get this working: https://github.com/jobindj/obsidian-publish-mkdocs

Seems cool. I am guessing you are using a local copy of Obsidian for those generated images? There might be a way to setup a github.io page to view the rendered content without downloading anything if that's something you wanted to do. This project seems to be oriented around doing that: https://github.com/jobindj/obsidian-publish-mkdocs

The entire app is structured in a way that it seems to actively encourage users to get creative and show off innovative ideas for automation and integration. With its increasing popularity, it has gotten even easier to do things like publishing without paying a dime.

Here's a totally free way to publish your Obsidian notes.