As I started my A Levels, I decided to take all my notes on Obsidian and sync this to a public Git repository. But why not take it a bit further? So I did, I used a lovely open-source project called Quartz to build a beautiful Hugo based static site.
Then I automated the building everytime I push a change to GitHub and make GitHub Actions spit the web files onto a seperate branch which I sync with my webserver hourly.
Its’s still a work in progress, but I am feeling good about it so far.
I did something similar during my studies (markdown notes were synchronised in real-time to a dedicated revision blog I created for the subject, organised by year, module, submodule).
Unfortunately it got popular and my institution’s legal department contacted me asking to shut it down 😂
Found it funny noticing other students using the blog for revision. Prior to the shutdown it appeared at the top of Google for a lot of searches related to the subject
I’m hoping that I won’t have to deal with a legal dispute, but I have noticed some of my notes appearing high up on Google alreasy.
What was their reasoning? It wasn’t as if you were writing other students’ papers. What’s wrong with some notes?
Apparently the lecturers claimed the site was misleading 😂 which to me is (excuse my french) a load of bullshíté, seeing as I achieved excellent results using the same notes for revision.
The meeting was in-person, they refused to provide a copy of the lecturer feedback they collected and would not let me read any of it. They seemed to read a very carefully curated selection of the multi-page report. From my sitting angle I recall noticing some positive feedback on the report, which the legal team didn’t mention during the meeting