Bedrock - An Obsidian vault renderer

During my PhD, I started using Obsidian for note taking. Notes in Obsidian are simply stored locally as markdown files. The flavor of Markdown is extended compared to say GitHub flavored Markdown. During this time, I started working on a tool to publish the content of my Obsidian vault on the web so that it is accessible at any time. This requires parsing the markdown syntax specific to Obsidian and making render to HTML. With the tailwind prose plugin, it was relatively straightforward to get started and get a nice rendering of notes.

One important feature, was the beautiful rendering of math equations which was quite straightforward to setup using MathJax.

This then prompted me to improve the supported feature set and add the famous graph view and things like backlinks to improve navigation. Other features include search, tags and more.

Finally, Obsidian added support for Bases. Which are allows one to filter notes and display them in a table or card view. This feature is certainly the more complex since it required adding a fully fledged interpreter in the codebase for this formula programming model which enables custom properties.

The support for Base is quite minimal but the goal is to improve it further to support more Bases in the wild. Another interesting feature to support would be Canvas. But I do not use them personally in my vault, so I have little motivation to implement this feature yet.

You can give Bedrock a try. The code is open-source at github.com/Pangoraw/Bedrock.

For the tech stack, Bedrock is written in Typescript and runs using the Deno runtime. Leveraging packages such as tailwindcss and React for rendering.