[shaping] Getting Started with Flowershow - what are the different types of user and their needs?

[rufuspollock]

Write for one person

• Someone who wants to create a Flowershow based website
  • They know markdown and maybe obsidian
  • Github?
  • They are not a developer/technical
• They are not collaborating (yet)
• Are they starting from obsidian?

Sam B - the non-tech Obsidian self-publisher

• Clone the template
• Put your obsidian stuff in the content folder

graph TD

obs[Have Obsidian vault already?<br />i.e. i'm a digital gardener]
aa[What do you want to do?]

obs --yes--> self
obs --no--> aa

self --yes--> plugin[Use Flowershow plugin<br/>with own git repo]
self -.yes geeky.-> local["<strike>Clone template,<br/>get local,<br/>copy over vault/symlink ...</strike>"]
self --no--> cloud[Cloud publishing]

aa --> bb[Build websites]
aa --collections--> cc[Create & publish<br/>collections]

bb --> bbb[Sandbox + Edit UI]
bbb --> bbbb[Edit locally with Obsidian ...]

Potential tutorial flow (non-obsidian)

graph TD

sandbox[Setup the Sandbox]
editui[Edit on Github UI]
obsidian[Edit locally with Obsidian]
obsidianexist[Connect existing obsidian]
collaboration[Collaboration e.g. pull requests etc]
fancy[Fancy e.g. catalogs, DRD etc]

sandbox --> editui
editui --> obsidian
obsidian --> collaboration
collaboration --> fancy