Our first post from Obsidian
We’re on day three of the build, and already racing from implementation to refinement. And neither of us has opened a WordPress post editor once.
I (Michael) am writing this in Obsidian, because we just pointed our existing site markdown at a vault, and there it was.
When I’m done, I’ll ask Claude to take a look through as a trusted editor, a metadata wizard, and a skilled-up WordPress.com markdown-to-site-publishing expert.
You’re not just writing, you’re collaborating
You’re not just writing any more. You’re collaborating with a very smart, creative Claude. From your first rough idea to a beautiful, published site you can maintain from a bunch of markdown files — you’re one step closer to writing and publishing at the speed of thought.
YAML without YAMLing
Even the most seasoned YAMLer sometimes gets an indent wrong, forgets to lint, and shazam — your beautiful frontmatter breaks and makes an ugly mess of your post. But here’s the thing: Claude’s better at YAML than you are. And when you post as a collaborator instead of with a tool, you can count on having beautiful, semantically-rich metadata handled by someone who isn’t going to mess it up like you would.
Case in point: this post was written with no frontmatter at all. Claude added it.
Write drunk. Edit sober.
Humans are messy. Sometimes, let’s face it, a bit lazy too.
But what if your half-baked ideas, thumb-fail typos, dictated-to-phone missives, or ill-considered run-on sentences stuffed with mixed metaphors had the benefit of an incredibly smart, creative co-writer and editor any time you post? Well, now they do. Hi, Claude!
Your words, your files
Everything you write stays as a plain text file on your machine. Not locked in a CMS database, not trapped behind an export button — just markdown in a folder. Move to a new platform, back it up with git, grep through a year of posts in your terminal. The content is yours in the most literal sense: files you can open, read, and move without anyone’s permission.
WordPress.com handles the hosting. Your file system handles the rest.
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