Abstract: to share the gift of your thoughts, research, and musings, is an honorable and virtuous craft.
Every human being, as a perfect individual (occupying a point in space and time that necessarily cannot be directly experienced by another human being), has a story to tell.
They have thoughts, feelings, emotions, intuitions, that may be similar to those of other humans, but can never be the same.
This can be something we give to others. It is something we have that is totally ours, to hoard, to share selectively, or to shout to anyone who will listen.
We grow in wisdom by deciding what we share with our loved ones, what we share with the world at large, and what we keep secret.
For what we want to share with the world, we have a wonderful tool: the personal wiki.
A personal wiki takes direct inspiration from Wikipedia and other collaborative efforts to build a knowledge base. However, by personally stewarding your own wiki, you can offer something no collaborative effort can.
A collaborative effort must make compromises, it must cut something to allow something else, it must be beholden to other collectives that it cooperates with.
These requirement do not apply to individuals. One can offer perspectives and thought nobody else can, and while collaborative efforts can offer an overview, a personal effort can offer a richness and depth that is not possible otherwise.
I want you to start a personal wiki.
I want to read your thoughts and perspective.
And I'll offer some ways to do it.
Easy (a little time plus $)
Use Obsidian to organize your wiki. A guide here on the basics: https://ryan.himmelwright.net/post/obsidian-basics/
Use Obsidian Publish to put your wiki online: https://obsidian.md/publish
[$10 a month, or $96 a year]
More Complex (more time, but no $)
Use Obsidian to make wiki.
Use an html export plugin, like this one: https://github.com/KosmosisDire/obsidian-webpage-export?tab=readme-ov-file
Use Github and Github Pages to publish the html files: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaRxVb60cAk
Pro (even more time plus some $)
Use Obsidian, Logseq, or any gui or cli tool to make your wiki
Use a plugin or a static site generator to turn the md files into html (or just write the whole thing in html from the get go).
Buy a domain.
Host those files however you normally host stuff.
For inspiration on how to build out your wiki, a few examples:
My own (using the More Complex way): https://wiki.davidbaunach.com/
Ellie's Notes: https://ellie.wtf/
Melanocarpa: https://garden.bouncepaw.com/hypha/melanocarpa
And there's a bunch of other examples on the Obsidian Publish page
