Okay, I’ve successfully gotten back into Obsidian, and I’ve managed to get Quartz working well enough. (“Managed to get” makes it sound harder than it was - I’m just very out of practice with really using my computer for more than clicking on things or dumping into a text interface.)
I’m keen to set up some kind of routine for bringing in older content, but I think for now, it’s just about set-up enough for me to actually replace the older version of emsenn.net that’s live now. I checked earlier today, and there’s actually not that much content up there.
The only real task left is standardizing the titles and tags for my babbles - Babble is the tag, for now. The titles all start with the date, so that alphabetical listings of them are also chronological, without having to futz with any settings in Quartz about how to sort things.