# 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,q_100,w_850/v1590401937/maggieappleton.com/notes/gatden-history/garden-wide.png)
## Tools and Resources - [The Knowledge Graph Radar](https://github.com/brettkromkamp/knowledge-graph-radar) - [Webmention](https://indieweb.org/Webmention) - [Webmention.io](https://webmention.io/) - a third party service provider - [Hypothesis](https://web.hypothes.is/) - social meta commentary #### Private Notes - [Roam](https://roamresearch.com/) - [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. #### Public Notes - [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. - [Stroll](https://giffmex.org/stroll/stroll.html) - A Roam-like tool built on 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.
## 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: An IndieWeb Pop-up Session](https://indieweb.org/2020/Pop-ups/GardenAndStream) - [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 - [The Garden and the Stream: A Techno pastoral](https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-technopastoral/) by Mike Caulfield - [As We May Think](https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/) by Vannevar Bush (The Atlantic, 1945)
## 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
## 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