digital-gardeners/README.md

# Digital Gardening

A collective of gardeners publicly tending their digital notes on the interwebs

![An illustration of a plant with an pencil edit icon](https://res.cloudinary.com/dg3gyk0gu/image/upload/c_scale,w_850/v1590401937/maggieappleton.com/notes/garden-history/garden-wide.png)

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## Gardening Tools
 
  
  #### Building a Public Garden
  - [TiddlyWiki](https://tiddlywiki.com/) - A no-code personal wiki system
    - [Stroll](https://giffmex.org/stroll/stroll.html) a notetaking tool built with the TiddlyWiki platform, with bi-directional links and other Roam-like features
    - [TiddlyBlink](https://giffmex.org/gifts/tiddlyblink.html) - TiddlyWiki with bi-directional linking
    - [TiddlyMap](http://tiddlymap.org/) - a mind-map plugin that shows visualizations for TiddlyWiki.
  - [Gitbook](https://www.gitbook.com/)
  - [React-Notion](https://github.com/splitbee/react-notion/) - allows you to publish a React-based website sources from your Notion notes - "Notion as a CMS"
  - [Gatsby Brain Theme](https://github.com/aengusmcmillin/gatsby-theme-brain) - Roam-like bidirectional links in Gatsby.js
  - [Gatsby Andy Theme](https://github.com/aravindballa/gatsby-theme-andy)
  - [Gatsby Theme Garden](https://github.com/mathieudutour/gatsby-digital-garden/) - A set of tools to build a digital garden with Gatsby.js. Pull data from Roam Research or markdown.
  - [Simply Jekyll](https://simply-jekyll.netlify.app/posts/introduction-to-simply-jekyll) - A Jekyll theme with bidirectional links, sidenotes, and transclusion
  
   #### Building a Private Garden
  - [Roam](https://roamresearch.com/) - A personal notes system for interconnected thought
  - [Org Roam](https://org-roam.readthedocs.io/en/develop/installation/)
  - [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/) -  a Roam-like knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
  
   #### Extra Gardening Tools
  - [Webmentions](https://indieweb.org/Webmention) - About the Webmentions system
     - [Webmention.io](https://webmention.io/) - A service to add Webmentions to your Garden
  - [Hypothesis](https://web.hypothes.is/) - A layer of social meta commentary
 
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## How-To's and Tutorials

- [How to build a digital garden with TiddlyWiki](https://nesslabs.com/digital-garden-tiddlywiki) by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
- [Install org-roam: an introductory technical guide with Doom Emacs](https://www.ianjones.us/2020-05-05-doom-emacs/) by Ian Jones
- [Building a Digital Garden](https://tomcritchlow.com/2019/02/17/building-digital-garden/) by Tom Critchlow
- [Webmentions - Joining the IndieWeb with Svelte](https://www.swyx.io/writing/clientside-webmentions) by Shawn Wang

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## Theory, Philosophy, and Navel-Gazing

- [Of Digital Streams, Campfires and Gardens](https://tomcritchlow.com/2018/10/10/of-gardens-and-wikis/) by Tom Critchlow
- [How the Blog Broke the Web](https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/) by Amy Hoy
- [My blog is a digital garden, not a blog](https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden) by Joel Hooks
- [You and your mind garden](https://nesslabs.com/mind-garden) by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
- [Digital Garden Terms of Service](https://www.swyx.io/writing/digital-garden-tos/) by Shawn Wang
- [What is a digital garden?](https://www.christopherbiscardi.com/garden) by Chris Biscardi
- [The Garden and the Stream: A Techno pastoral](https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-technopastoral/) by Mike Caulfield
- [The Garden and the Stream: An IndieWeb Pop-up Session](https://indieweb.org/2020/Pop-ups/GardenAndStream)
- [The Swale: Weaving between Garden and Stream](https://bonkerfield.org/2020/05/swale-garden-stream/) by Will Stedden 

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## Common Groud: Zettlekasten, Knowledge Graphs, Wikis, and Related Concepts

- [The Knowledge Graph Radar](https://github.com/brettkromkamp/knowledge-graph-radar)
- [Zettlekasten: knowledge and info management](https://zettelkasten.de/)
- [The Zettelkasten Method](https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/NfdHG6oHBJ8Qxc26s/the-zettelkasten-method-1) by Abram Demski
- [A web of wikis](https://doubleloop.net/2020/05/16/a-web-of-wikis/) by Neil Mather 
- [Bliki tooling](https://doubleloop.net/2020/05/02/bliki-tooling/) by Neil Mather
- [Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook, Getting Things Done, And Other Systems](http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/HackYourLifeWithAPrivateWikiNotebookGettingThingsDoneAndOtherSystems) by Bill Seitz
- [As We May Think](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/) by Vannevar Bush (The Atlantic, 1945)

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## Digital Garden Directory

Each listed with 🛠 build tools and 🌿 note themes

- [Andy Matuschuk](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/)
  - 🛠 The Mystery Andy System
  - 🌿 Note-taking, education, tools for thought

- [Anne-Laure Le Cunff](https://www.mentalnodes.com/)
  - 🛠 TiddlyWiki
  - 🌿 Networked thinking, metacognition, evidence-based learning and self-education
  
- [Tom Critchlow](https://tomcritchlow.com/)
  - 🛠 Jekyll
  
- [Shawn Wang](https://www.swyx.io/writing)
  - 🛠 Gatsby 
  - 🌿 Web development, writing, speaking

- [Kevin Cummingham](https://kevincunningham.co.uk)
  - 🛠 Gatsby
  - 🌿 Web development, React, AWS, GraphQL
  
- [Aengus McMillin](https://aengusmcmillin.com/brain)
  - 🛠 Gatsby

- [Alzen Elza](https://notes.azlen.me/g3tibyfv/)
  - 🌿 Design, Conversational interfaces, Tools for thought
  
- [Joel Hooks](https://joelhooks.com/)
  - 🛠 Next.js
  - 🌿 Bootstrapping / indie-hacking, community building, web development, 
  
- [Ian Jones](https://ianjones.us/notes)
  - 🛠 Gatsby
  - 🌿 Web development, Gatsby, Emacs

- [Maggie Appleton](http://maggieappleton.com/)
  - 🛠 Gatsby + MDX
  - 🌿 Anthropology, metaphors, visual explanations, and web development
  
- [Chris Biscardi](https://www.christopherbiscardi.com/garden)
  - 🛠 Sector / Toast?
  - 🌿 Web development, MDX, GraphQL, Gatsby

- [Wess Daniels](https://nurselog.online)
  - 🛠 Tiddlywiki (Pre-Release 5.1.23)
  - 🌿 Culture and systems change, liberation theology, tech and pedagogy 
  
- [Wayan Jimmy](https://notebook.wayanjimmy.xyz)
  - 🛠 Gatsby ([Hasura Gitbook Starter](https://github.com/hasura/gatsby-gitbook-starter))
  - 🌿 Coding, Learning notes
  
- [Markus](https://re1.dev/wiki/)
  - 🛠 Eleventy
  - 🌿 Design, linux, privacy
  
- [Max Stoiber](https://notes.mxstbr.com/About_these_notes)
  - 🛠 The Mystery Andy System
  - 🌿 React, web development

- [Gwern](https://www.gwern.net/)
  - 🌿 Quantified self, spaced repetition, bitcoin
  
- [Chris Aldrich](https://tw.boffosocko.com)
  - 🛠 TiddlyWiki + TiddlyBlink + TiddlyMap
  - 🌿 Art of Memory, IndieWeb, humanities, commonplace books, thought spaces

- [Neil Mather](https://commonplace.doubleloop.net)
  - 🛠 Org-mode
  
- [Gordon Brander](http://gordonbrander.com/pattern/)
  - 🛠 [Lettersmith](https://github.com/gordonbrander/lettersmith_py)
  - 🌿 Design patterns, storytelling, systems

- [Bill Seitz](http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/)
  - 🛠 Flask/Python with [WikiFlux](http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/WikiFlux)
  
- [Daniel Chapman](https://www.dschapman.com/notes)
  - 🛠 Gatsby
  - 🌿 Books, Writing, Poetry

- [Will Stedden](https://bonkerfield.org/)
  - 🛠 Custom coding a [side project](https://bonkerfield.org/2020/05/swale-garden-stream/)

- [Noah Trenaman](https://blog.noahtren.com/note/3acea2e1/)
  - 🛠 Unknown platform
  - 🌿 neural networks, tools for thought, networked writing