The advantage of an Obsidian-first site is not novelty. It is durability.
If the source material is already in markdown, the publishing layer can stay thin. That means less CMS surface area, fewer moving parts, and less risk of the site drifting away from the notes.
A filesystem is easier to reason about than a black-box content store.
Useful defaults:
- write in plain files
- publish only notes with
published: true - preserve human-friendly linking
- keep the site static by default
This becomes especially useful once topic archives and search are generated from the same source files.
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