Obsidian Publish is the first-party hosting service from the Obsidian team. You pick which notes to publish, click sync, and your vault is live at a public URL with backlinks, graph view, and full-text search — no build step, no deploy pipeline, no server to maintain. The sites below show the range of what people use it for.
What is Obsidian Publish?
Obsidian Publish is a paid hosted service that turns selected notes from your local vault into a public website. The plugin is built into the official Obsidian app: you mark notes as published, hit a sync button, and they appear at your custom URL within seconds. Out of the box you get backlinks, an interactive graph, full-text search, and theme customisation.
When to use it
Pick Obsidian Publish when you want zero operational overhead and you're happy paying a monthly subscription. It's ideal for course creators, researchers, and anyone whose primary work is the writing — not the publishing pipeline. If you'd rather not pay or you want full control over the HTML, look at Quartz in the sister category.
What people build with it
The gallery below covers personal wikis, public research notebooks, course materials, company handbooks, and reference docs. Browse a few examples to see how authors structure their landing page, organise navigation, and decide what to keep private vs public — these are the design choices that matter much more than the technology underneath.