Micro.publish

Micro.publish

Micro.publish is a community-maintained plugin for Obsidian that lets you publish notes to your Micro.blog blog — including posts, pages, and quick microposts — right from your vault.

This community-maintained plugin is not affiliated with Micro.blog or Obsidian.

Features

• Publish to Micro.blog
  • Posts: publish with title, tags, visibility (Draft/Public), and optional scheduled date.
  • Pages: publish pages and optionally include them in your blog’s navigation.
  • Microposts (desktop): compose and publish short posts up to 300 characters (plain text).
• Image handling
  • Automatically finds local images in your note (standard Markdown and Obsidian wiki-style image links), uploads them to Micro.blog, and replaces references with hosted URLs.
  • Caches uploaded image mappings in note properties for fast re-publish.
• Categories and tags
  • Synchronize categories from Micro.blog for better tag suggestions.
  • Default tags and visibility for new posts.
• Multi-blog support
  • Choose a default blog and switch per publish.
• Obsidian Properties (YAML frontmatter) support
  • Uses title, tags when present; falls back to filename and defaults otherwise.
  • Saves url after successful publishing for easy updates.

Installation

• In Obsidian, go to Settings > Community Plugins > Browse, search for Micro.publish, then install and enable.
• Or install from the plugin directory: Obsidian’s website.

Login

Generate an App Token on the Micro.blog Account page and paste it in Settings > Micro.publish.

Quick start

1. Create or open a Markdown note.
2. Optionally add Properties (or YAML) for:
   • title: overrides filename as the post title.
   • tags: comma-separated list (e.g., writing, book-notes).
3. Use the Command Palette and run:
   • Publish Post to Micro.blog for posts, or
   • Publish Page to Micro.blog for pages.
4. Review and adjust fields (title, tags, visibility, blog, and date for posts; navigation for pages).
5. Confirm to publish. The note’s Properties will be updated with the post/page url.

Tip: On desktop, use Compose Micropost (also available via a ribbon icon).

Commands

• Publish Post to Micro.blog: publish or update the current note as a post.
• Publish Page to Micro.blog: publish or update the current note as a page.
• Synchronize Categories: fetch categories from Micro.blog for suggestions.
• Compose Micropost (desktop only): open a quick composer for short posts (up to 300 characters in plain text).

Settings

• Blog
  • Blog: default blog for new posts and pages (with a refresh button).
• Posts
  • Categories: default tags for new posts (comma-separated).
  • Visibility: Draft or Public default for posts.
• Pages
  • Navigation: include new pages in blog navigation by default.
• Misc.
  • Categories synchronization: auto-sync categories when Obsidian starts.
• Account
  • App Token: log in / log out of Micro.blog.

Properties (YAML frontmatter)

• title: used as the post/page title. Falls back to filename if missing.
• tags: comma-separated tags for posts. Falls back to defaults if missing.
• url: added by Micro.publish after a successful publish; used to update existing posts/pages.

Example:

---
title: My New Post
tags: writing, book-notes
url: https://example.micro.blog/2024/09/10/my-new-post.html
---

Editing and updating

• After publishing with Micro.publish, the note’s url is saved in Properties.
• To update a post/page, edit the note (or title/tags) and run the same command:
  • Publish Post to Micro.blog or Publish Page to Micro.blog.
• Updating older notes (published before v2.0.0): add a url Property manually, then run the command.

Images

• Supported image syntaxes:
  • Standard Markdown: ![alt](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/otaviocc/obsidian-microblog/HEAD/path/to/image.png)
  • Obsidian wiki-style: ![[path/to/image.png]]
• Local images are read from your vault, uploaded to Micro.blog, and references are replaced with hosted URLs.
• Relative paths are resolved against the note’s folder. Remote image URLs are left unchanged.
• If you need to force reprocessing, remove the image_urls Property and re-publish.

Scheduling posts

• In the post review dialog, set an optional scheduled date/time. The date must be parseable by your system (e.g., 2025-09-12 14:00). Leave blank to publish immediately.

Desktop-only extras

• Compose Micropost command and ribbon icon are available on desktop to quickly publish short updates (limit: 300 plain-text characters).

Building from source

Clone into your vault’s plugins folder:

cd .obsidian/plugins/
git clone https://github.com/otaviocc/obsidian-microblog

Install and build:

cd obsidian-microblog
npm i
npm run build

Restart Obsidian and enable the plugin under Community Plugins.

Contributing

1. Fork this repository and follow the build steps above using your fork.
2. Create a feature branch.
3. Commit and push your changes.
4. Open a pull request.

License

MIT