MoonDAO documentation, planning, project notes, and other reference material.
Markdown files in MoonDAO/docs are used to generate MoonDAO's public documentation.
This repository is compatible with Obsidian.
These docs are a collection of markdown files so you can use any text editor to make changes. The recommended way to work with this repository is by cloning it and opening the folder as an Obsidian vault.
The official documentation in MoonDAO/docs use Obsidian-flavored backlinks and frontmatter properties that add extra functionality when using Obsidian to read and edit files.
- Add a file or directory (incl. wildcards) to
.gitignoreto exclude them from the repository altogether. This instructs git to ignore any changes to matching files when it looks for updates to your local repository. This is global for the whole repository, and affects everyone who clones the repo too. - Add
draft: trueto the file's frontmatter to sync the file to the repository but do not allow it to be published on the generated docs site. - Clone this repo as a subdirectory of an existing vault to use your own Obsidian workspace alongside this vault without syncing your files to this repo. In order to sync changes, pulls and pushes must be done from this repository, but all changes outside this repo's root directory will be ignored.
By default, local Obsidian customizations (in the .obsidian folder) are not synced to the repo. Use whatever plugins and themes you want for your cloned repo.
The site generated from MoonDAO/docs is customized in a roundabout way since this repo is meant for only MoonDAO files but Quartz relies on files cloned from the official repo for configuration. We only install and invoke Quartz on the CI/CD runner so Quartz files are not stored in our repo. To get around this problem of keeping "dead" code from Quartz in our repo, we only store modified quartz files in this repo and overwrite the default files during the GitHub Actions workflow. That way we only keep relevant, customized files in the repo. All files in .site-config/ are copied to the Quartz root during a build. It's literally a recursive copy. The site can be completely configured by making modifications to Quartz files and merging them to the .site-config directory here.
The documentation site is automatically built and deployed after every new commit to the main branch. Clone this repository, make changes, and submit a Pull Request to contribute.
The documentation site is generated with Quartz. A markdown file in MoonDAO/docs can be excluded from the site by adding draft: true to the YAML frontmatter.
---
title: Example Title
draft: true
tags:
- example-tag
---At this time, Quartz only supports some of Obsidian's core plugins (e.g. Backlinks, Callouts, Graph View, Mermaid diagrams, etc.). Click here for a full list of features supported by Quartz. Community plugins like Dataview will not be rendered properly on the generated site and just show up as raw text.
Be sure to regularly sync your local repository like any other git repo. Avoid change conflicts by working on a separate branch from main, and occasionally merge main to your working branch.
The Obsidian Git community plugin adds some shortcuts and convenience tools for backing up your work to git directly from Obsidian. Clone the repository and pull/push changes with conventional git commands. The plugin streamlines automatic commits and syncing to the remote.