I experiment as much as I can, but the Obsidian Publish publishing window discourages me with each attempt. I find this really confusing.
I haven’t found any resources that fully try to explain the logic of how it works, other than very vague and non-detailed things.
And yet I started with a simple structure: I created a folder named “publish” with inside the structure that I want to see published, since it’s a very small part of all my notes.
Some examples of behaviors that I don’t understand, in bulk:
When I modify something in this folder, and I select it to update it, Obsidian deletes the contents of this folder on the publish site, and I have to start the operation again.
Yet in the window, I did not click on an “unpublish” button, but on “publish”.
Sometimes I change something in a note, but when I want to update, nothing appears in the “changed” section.
If I select my “Publish” folder in the window (in order to update the whole folder), it sometimes says “To delete” selected in red, while the other files are selected in another color.
And I can also check or uncheck each of these different files…
Above, a mention: “select to unpublish” (???), while the “general” button at the bottom mentions “Publish”.
What am I supposed to understand about all this??
I’m just trying to update the folder that interests me, whether it’s new, updated or deleted files.
Why is it so complicated to understand the logic of this window?
I intend to get rid of WordPress (which I hate and no longer use) and the simplicity of being able to unify the writing / publishing process promised by Obsidian Publish is for the moment a little compromised by this (still too) obscure window!
Any help with setup or detailed walkthrough is welcome, thanks!
