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As Notes – A Static Site Generator in Your Markdown Knowledgebase

As Notes – A Static Site Generator in Your Markdown Knowledgebase

by gbro3n·Mar 25, 2026·7 points·0 comments
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AI Analysis

●●SolidNiche GemSolve My Problem

Publish Markdown notes from VS Code without maintaining Hugo or Jekyll pipelines.

Strengths
  • •Built-in HTML converter removes need for external SSG binaries or build steps.
  • •Supports wikilinks and backlinks natively within standard Markdown files.
  • •Deploys to any static host via simple Git push workflow.
Weaknesses
  • •Locked into VS Code ecosystem, unlike Obsidian which is editor-agnostic.
  • •Theming and layout customization requires managing separate JSON and CSS folders.
Target Audience

Developers using VS Code for note-taking and documentation

Similar To

Quartz · Obsidian Publish · Docusaurus

Post Description

AS Notes helps you to publish your notes to a static site in the same way that you might use Jekyll, Hugo, Eleventy or Docusaurus, but from your existing markdown notes knowledge base and from within VS Code.

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