Daybook Vault

A starter vault and template repository for Daybook, a minimalist static blog generator for Obsidian notes.

Deploy to Cloudflare

This template is configured for Cloudflare Workers Builds. Click the button above to automatically:

1. Clone this repository to your GitHub account.
2. Provision a D1 Database (for page-view statistics).
3. Provision a Durable Object namespace (for realtime viewing presence).
4. Build the static site and deploy the API worker to Cloudflare.

Subsequent git pushes to your repository will automatically trigger a new deployment.

Writing in Obsidian

1. Open Obsidian and select Open folder as vault.
2. Select the vault/ directory inside this repository.
3. Write your articles in vault/notes/ and place attachments in vault/attachments/.
4. The global Daybook configuration remains at the repository root (daybook.yaml), which is outside the Obsidian vault.
5. The built static site is output to public/, completely separate from your source files.

Local Build

To build the static site locally:

npm ci
npm run build

The output will be generated in the public/ directory.

You can preview the site and the worker API locally using:

npm run dev

Daybook Version

The Daybook CLI version used for building the site is specified in the .daybook-version file at the root of this repository.

• By default, it is set to latest, which will automatically fetch the latest stable release from GitHub.
• If you want a reproducible build environment, you can pin it to a specific release tag (e.g., v2026.08.24.2).

Configuration

Configure your site globally in daybook.yaml. Leave site.url empty if you don't want to enforce a specific domain initially. You can configure it later once your domain is set up on Cloudflare.