How I Blog with Obsidian, Hugo, GitHub, and Cloudflare – Zero Cost, Fully Owned

I’ve been using Obsidian for all my writing lately, and it’s been a game changer. The local-first model means everything lives as plain text on my machine, and with the Minimal theme, the interface stays clean and distraction-free. My vault lives in iCloud (Dropbox or Google Drive work too), so notes sync seamlessly across devices - I often start drafts on my phone and finish them later on my laptop. For publishing, I use Hugo with the Bear Blog theme (fast, minimal), and deploy via GitHub and Cloudflare Pages. This stack gives me full control: no subscriptions, no vendor lock-in, and no risk of platforms disappearing or changing policies. If you: Use (or want to try) Obsidian Don’t mind a bit of technical setup Prefer writing in plain text with Git-based version control Want a fast, cost-free, portable publishing flow Then this setup might be exactly what you’re looking for. Once set up, publishing is as simple as toggling a draft flag and pushing to GitHub. Setting Up Your S ... Read full article.