Meeting with Ola + Rufus re product

Priorities for Ola

• 281 - getting at least cloudflare working (then pause b4 frontend refactor)
• Talk to Yoana about post-launch marketing
• Talk to Yoana about launch on product hunt
• Shape 687 - blog support
• Shape 717 re obsidian plugin improvements
• Shape 686 (v briefly) - what is simplest thing we can do without messing old
  • Where do we publish our product site? could be www.flowershow.app
  • Where do we publish user sites (is it part of product site e.g. www.flowershow.app/@abc/xyz or do we have a different domain e.g. https://flowershow.website/@username/xxx or a specific subdomain e.g. publish.flowershow.app/@username/xxx )

https://github.com/datopian/product/issues/283

What (Obsidian) users want from a publish tool (and general feedback from launch) #283

Threads:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/PKMS/comments/1jac3ay/publish_your_obsidian_vault_for_free_with/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/ObsidianMD/comments/1jaxufo/publish_your_obsidian_vault_quickly_and_for_free/?rdt=43300 (16k views)

Needs/Friction points

Granular publishing control

People want the ability to publish individual notes (or entire folders, such as a dedicated “Blog” folder) instead of having to publish the entire vault. The same goes for preventing notes from beeing published.

What's wrong with current options:

• publish: false: works fine in the app, but the plugin doesn't recognize it at all and so would show such file among other files due for publishing to GitHub
• contentInclude/contentExclude in config.json: same issue as with the option above; plus, you need to create a special file for it in your vault which is a bit inconvenient

All in all: Plugin behavior and UI are confusing, and it doesn't allow for any content publishing control. You have control but only at GitHub -> Flowershow syncing stage.

Blog support

Blog index page is wanted with:

• Chronological posts ordering
• A way to archive blog posts and keep them unpublished (? or in a separate section/page)

Tag handling

Users are looking for tags to be clickable hyperlinks that lead to pages displaying all notes under that tag.

Enhanced PDF rendering

Feedback pointed out issues with PDF highlight displays (especially on desktop and mobile), suggesting that a more polished implementation would be beneficial.

Data safety concerns

Someone also raised concerns about the safety of their vault on cloud services (like iCloud), emphasizing that the publishing process should not compromise their original data.