Obsidian Publish is great, but as a student, I can’t afford the 8 dollars/mth so I’ve been trying to find alternatives. Granted, they’re not as pretty or fully featured as Obsidian Publish and developers may stop supporting these projects but if you’re willing to work with compromises, here’s the list I’ve compiled from the forums so far.
I’m adding the (old) reply from Carl in the Discord server, which was based generously on @EleanorKonik’s roundup:
If you’re interested in a self-hosted/homebrewed version, there are a few options out there. Keep in mind that they might need some setup e.g. due to (lack of) compatibility with wikilinks. Here’s a small summary from the Obsidian Roundup:
People who want a no-brainer but elegant solution can check obsidian-zola out too! Add one file to your Obsidian Vault and you are set to go! Knowledge graph, Wikilinks, LaTEX, Google Analytics etc. are supported.
if I’m right, on github everything is not only public but ready to be copied. Are there alternatives to Obsidian Publish which work without it?
I like the idea of publishing my vault but I would like to have it published only on the static website I`d create, not also on github.
So far I have the impression, that something like that exists, but that it is more difficult for non-techies.
deploy using netlify instead of enabling github pages. I suggest login to netlify first and connect to your private repo from there. The template link i shared above have sort of the steps
Obsidian Share is now updated so you don’t even need your own hosting. You can start sharing files immediately with no setup required other than copy/pasting a Templater script.
Uploads using your live theme, along with all your options and custom CSS.