Based on Quartz documentation, all content for the site needs to reside in the content folder of the site. Since The Terrace acts as a public portion of my overall Obsidian vault, I go through a process of taking authored content and migrating it over to be published

  1. Write authored content in personal vault
  2. Store content in folder called Terrace
  3. Copy contents of Terrace over to content folder.
  4. Open folder in Obsidian and fix/remove links that do not work in this vault.
  5. Publish

I think this generally goes against common convention. However I find I’m conflicted between having a unified, single vault that stores very private items and having some portion of that also be available for public viewing.

Written Public Content vs General Notes

Another challenge I have is that my personal vault is written much more atomically than anything written for public consumption. Atomic notes allow for a much more connectivity between ideas generating various forms of context stemming from a single notion. Public consumption makes that harder to convey without presenting the entire vault to the public. Additionally, writing with a public facing lens in mind is a helpful practice that allows for meaning to be more easily shared.

So in general, I guess i accept that there will be some friction in this process to ensure some level of privacy and the ability to curate content to some degree.