Session with Claude (Sonnet 4.6) covering publishing target, Mermaid support, image rendering, and link format conventions.
Decisions Made
Publishing target — MkDocs reinstated
Use of MkDocs has been superseded.
Now using Quartz. See 20260227. Any information here related to MkDocs or Publish can be ignored.
MkDocs was briefly set aside in favor of Obsidian Publish (per the 2/24 session), but was reinstated this session. Publishing target is still not fully locked in, but MkDocs is the active path. CLAUDE.md updated accordingly.
Mermaid diagrams (#15 — Resolved)
Mermaid is the right diagramming tool for this vault. It renders natively in Obsidian
and is supported in MkDocs via pymdownx.superfences. Same ```mermaid syntax works
in both environments — write once, publish anywhere.
mkdocs.yml updated:
- Expanded
pymdownx.superfenceswith custom Mermaid fence config - Added
extra_javascriptentry for the Mermaid CDN script
Image rendering (#17 — Resolved)
Obsidian-style ![[wikilink]] image embeds do not translate reliably to MkDocs.
Standard Markdown syntax does:
Link format convention
To make images and links work reliably in both Obsidian and MkDocs:
- Wikilinks off in Obsidian settings
- Link format: “path from vault” (e.g.
[Page](Areas/Duplex/Room.md)) - Obsidian auto-updates these paths on rename/move, so they are not fragile
The ezlinks plugin handles page wikilinks for MkDocs; with wikilinks off, standard
paths are generated that MkDocs can resolve without a plugin.
Frontier Fiber Modem.md updated manually to use standard Markdown image syntax.
CLAUDE.md updated with a new “Link format convention” section.
To-Do Items Added
| # | Task |
|---|---|
| 18 | Nodes in breadcrumb trails are not links |
| 19 | Ignore MD045 — images should have alt text |
Tooling Note
Learned that Claude Code stores full session history as .jsonl files under
~/.claude/projects/<project-path>/. Useful for recovery after terminal crashes.
jq is the right tool to extract readable text from these files (not yet installed).