diff --git a/config.sh b/config.sh
index 5229d9c..9c3f777 100644
--- a/config.sh
+++ b/config.sh
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ lastupdated="true"
 site_title="koutsie's telenotes"
 site_description="thoughts about mainly computers... maybe recipes and cats too?"
 site_link="https://k0.tel/"
+publish_dir="."
 
 # Put CSS between <<EOF and EOF
 site_css=$(cat <<EOF
diff --git a/noter.sh b/noter.sh
index 8c579f0..c8cd72a 100755
--- a/noter.sh
+++ b/noter.sh
@@ -1,8 +1,6 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 # noter 1.3.0 - "nice configs" - @k@layer8.space - mit
 
-source ./config.sh
-
 # a pretty nifty little logging utility!
 nlog() {
     local ORANGE='\033[0;33m'
@@ -12,6 +10,11 @@ nlog() {
     echo -e "${ORANGE}[noter] ${calling_function} | ${1} ${NO_COLOR}"
 }
 
+nlog "sourcing config.sh"
+source ./config.sh
+
+# Override publish dir if passed as cli arg
+[[ ! -z "$1" ]] && nlog "overriding publish_dir to $1" && publish_dir="$1"
 
 if [ ! -d "notes" ]; then
     nlog "Error: 'notes' folder not found!"
@@ -133,8 +136,12 @@ generate_rss_feed() {
 # godspeed notecount...
 notecount=$(find notes -name "*.txt" ! -empty | wc -l)
 
+if [ ! -d "${publish_dir}" ]; then
+  nlog "Creating ${publish_dir}"
+  mkdir -p "${publish_dir}"
+fi
 # Create HTML file
-output_file="index.html"
+output_file="${publish_dir}/index.html"
 echo "<!DOCTYPE html>
 <html>
 <head>
