Disconcerted Musings

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Inspiration

There's an app called Obsidian.md that allows one to take rich notes using a plaintext, easy to understand format called Markdown. I started using Obsidian and loved it. Eventually, I had to use Google Docs for school. Google Docs supports Markdown (theoretically) and so I thought it was a simple matter of importing any assignments I needed to submit into Google Docs. Unfortunately, the list format I use for a lot of my notes is nonstandard, so Google Docs' parser couldn't make sense of the structure and got confused. This annoyed me so much that I looked into a way to publish my Markdown directly, without having to rely on Google Docs. After searching around for a bit, I found Quartz, which promised everything I wanted: a near-native embedded Obsidian view, an index, and the ability to host raw files such as images. However, Quartz uses Docker the server I do my web hosting on is an Oracle Cloud Free Tier machine with 1vCPU and 1G of RAM.