Things I like/dislike about quarto are listed here.
Generally, I love quarto and the main thing I don’t like about quarto is how slow it is, compared to say, hugo.
I looked heavily into quartz, which is explained here as a way to publish your Obsidian vault on GitHub. And here’s an example of a digital garden someone uses with quartz, it’s pretty slick. Here are the features of quartz.
Why quarto? I really like the design of a blog, as I tend to think better in “post” form rather than never-ending-garden-of-thoughts. I like reading blogs because I assume the thoughts are complete. Quartz is great if you just want your own wiki. I just don’t really care about the network graphs and all and I don’t think other people reading them care either.
I want to focus on writing and sometimes long form writing. Quarto enables a lot, is easy to setup and customize, has great search, has a ton of markdown desires (tabs, callouts, asides, footnotes), can render code (Python/R) when I want to be adventurous, and has a blog interface for posts.
Largely they’re the same, and maybe I’ll use quartz at some point. But I’m happy where I am now.
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