# 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)
## Gardening Tools #### Building a Public Garden - [TiddlyWiki](https://tiddlywiki.com/) - A no-code personal wiki system - [Stroll](https://giffmex.org/stroll/stroll.html) a TiddlyWiki plugin with bi-directional links and other Roam-like features - [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 - [Digital Garden Jekyll Template](https://github.com/maximevaillancourt/digital-garden-jekyll-template) - A simple, clean jekyll template with bi-directional links - [Foam](https://foambubble.github.io/foam/) - Roam-like personal note management and publishing system built inside VSCode #### 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
## 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
## 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
## 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)
## Digital Garden Directory | Garderner & Link | 🛠 Build Tools | 🌿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 | Indie consulting | | [Shawn Wang](https://www.swyx.io/writing) | Gatsby | Web development, writing, speaking | [Kevin Cummingham](https://kevincunningham.co.uk) | Gatsby | Web development, React, AWS, GraphQL | [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 | [Aengus McMillin](https://aengusmcmillin.com/brain) | Gatsby | Programming, Stoicism | | [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 | [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/) | [JS, CSS, Hakyll, Haskell](https://www.gwern.net/About#tools) | 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 | Programming, politics, climate change | | [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) | Product management, startups, wiki theory, engineering | | [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/) | Machine learning, automated language generation, quantum physics art, online transparency | [Salman Ansari](https://notes.salman.io/) | Gatsby | Start-ups, engineering | | [Fabien Benetou](https://fabien.benetou.fr/) | PmWiki (with plenty of extensions PHP/JS/NodeJS/WebXR/CSS/Processing/etc) | Everytyhing but particularly programming, tools, tools for thoughts |