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.
That’s a fun idea. I’d worry the school might get angry at you for releasing your notes, which other students might use, but at the end of the day, does it really matter how a student learns the material? If your notes do a good job at summarizing complex information, it seems like a win for me.
Thinking about it, it would be very interesting if we had students notes throughout history. We could see what was being taught and what was being understood through the ages.
Yeah, I’ve noticed Wayback Machine has archived my site a few times, so even if my site went down there would still be a record for anyone interested in the notes of a 2023 student.
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
What was their reasoning? It wasn’t as if you were writing other students’ papers. What’s wrong with some notes?
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.
I’ve never used obsidian but the people who make thousands of anki cards, release them for free, and allow the community to add important ones of their own has saved me many times.
Anki is a beautiful project
If I wanted to use these notes as direct source material for an open source quiz project, would that be okay? I’ve been looking for good, free, open source notes, Q&As, and diagrams but it’s not easy.
Yeah, looking at these notes, they don’t appear particularly useful for my purposes either. It’s a challenge to find good, ready-to-use material. Thanks for sharing them, though.
This is pretty awesome.
Where are they?
They’re all on https://sethmb.xyz
FYI, the text colours are a bit messed up for me. Headings are all white on a very light background, to the point where I almost didn’t see them. Perhaps it’s my fault for being a horrible light-mode user?
Yeah I have recently broken some CSS for light mode, thanks for reminding me it needs fixing.
