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Flowershow: A Free & Open Source tool for publishing your Obsidian vaults

Flowershow is a tool to help you publish your Obsidian notes. It's free and open-source.

Whether it's your knowledge garden, wiki, or blog, Flowershow's aim is to help you share your work with the world, easily and beautifully!

🚧 Note: we're still putting the finishing touches to Flowershow before putting it on open release. Sign up on the site if you'd like to try it out. 🚧

➑ Check out Flowershow site - it's built with Flowershow!

➑ And find us on Github

Flowershow is
Built for Markdown and crafted for Obisidian: Works with your existing Obsidian notes out of the box. No need to modify the syntax or change file layout. Not an obsidian fan? Flowershow will work with any CommonMark or GFM markdown files.

Elegant and functional: Clean and elegant default theme with dark and light mode, hero, navbar, backlinks section and support for internal links, backlinks, math, mermaid, callouts and more.

Customizable and extendable: Want to spice things up? Flowershow is easy to extend, tweak and customize and is built on standard, modern web stack – React, NextJS and Tailwind.

Backed by an experienced team

Why flowershow?
We've built content and data-driven websites for over a decade and we love Markdown. We've been using it a lot internally, both for note-taking and for content authoring for our various projects. But some time ago we discovered Obsidian. And we fell in love with it 😍.

We thought it would be amazing to author our content completely this way and still be able to publish the result as elegant websites.

So, we started working on Flowershow - a tool that supports all the Obsidian goodness and its syntax (e.g. wikilinks, backlinks, Mermaid and Excalidraw embeds or knowledge graph) and would also be able to produce a beautiful, customizeable and maintainable website.

We also ❀ Open Source and want Flowershow to grow with the needs and contributions of the community.

Features (supported and en route)
βœ… CommonMark and GitHub Flavoured Markdown support

βœ… MDX support to allow for importing custom React components, using data in your markdown, and more

βœ… Elegant default theme to start with

βœ… Obsidian wiki-links

βœ… Customizable layouts of your pages

βœ… Tailwind support for easy styling in-markdown HTML and custom components (Learn more)

βœ… Google analytics and SEO support

βœ… Mermaid and MathJax support

...and many more!

πŸ— Alpha version Flowershow is being developed very actively but there is a lot more cool stuff coming. Check out the roadmap and issues on our GitHub repo to learn more!

πŸ“‘ Stay tuned! Visit our website and leave us your email, if you'd like to get notified about our latest features!

🧭 We'd love to hear your opinions and sugestions! Maybe there is a feature you think we've completely overlooked or you have an idea for some cool addition? Join the discord chat and let us know!

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