I’ve been playing around a bit with Gitbook to see if it would be a good fit for a publishing itch I need to scratch. I ended up tearing my (somewhat limited) hair out over it – I don’t think I’ve ever used a technology so wilfully obscure!

What I really wanted was a means of writing markdown documents on my laptop, which with as little fuss as possible I could publish as simple webpages.

In the end I went with Obsidian Publish. I don’t really mind what editor I use, and Obsidian is easy enough to configure to look and feel how I like it. What’s most important is that publishing the content is a simple case of clicking a couple of buttons.

The results are a nice, simple set of pages with a structured table of contents on the left hand side – perfect.

It does cost a few quid a month, but I figured it’s worth it for the convenience.