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.

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    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

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      1 year ago

      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.

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      1 year ago

      What was their reasoning? It wasn’t as if you were writing other students’ papers. What’s wrong with some notes?

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        1 year ago

        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