Resources, links, projects, and ideas for gardeners tending their digital notes on the public interwebs
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Digital Gardening

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

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Gardening Tools

Building a Public Garden

  • Roam Research - A personal notes system for interconnected thought
    • See the following resources for converting your private garden in Roam to a public garden:
  • Obsidian - a Roam-like knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. Also allows you to publish selections of your graph to the open web.
  • TiddlyWiki - A no-code personal wiki system
    • Stroll a TiddlyWiki plugin with bi-directional links and other Roam-like features
    • TiddlyMap - a mind-map plugin that shows visualizations for TiddlyWiki.
  • Gitbook
  • React-Notion - allows you to publish a React-based website sources from your Notion notes - "Notion as a CMS"
  • Gatsby Brain Theme - Roam-like bidirectional links in Gatsby.js
  • Gatsby Andy Theme
  • Gatsby Theme Garden - A set of tools to build a digital garden with Gatsby.js. Pull data from Roam Research or markdown.
  • Simply Jekyll - A Jekyll theme with bidirectional links, sidenotes, and transclusion
  • Digital Garden Jekyll Template - A simple, clean jekyll template with bi-directional links
  • Eleventy Garden - A minimal template with backlinks, built in Eleventy
  • Foam - Roam-like personal note management and publishing system built inside VSCode
  • Foamy NextJS - Basic Foam + NextJS with MDX starter for building a digital garden
  • Dendron - A structured note taking tool that merges the freedom of Roam-like linking with the order hierarchical organization
  • Hyperdraft - Turns plain markdown notes into a website as you write. Easy to setup and doesn't require builds or deploys.
  • Neuron - Managing and publishing system for plain-text Zettelkasten-style notes.
  • Innos Notes Features include parallel pages, content blocks, and knowledge graph visualisations.

Building a Private Garden

  • Org Roam - non-hierarchical note-taking with org-mode in emacs
  • TheBrain - A tool for taking interconnected notes with an interactive graph.

Extra Gardening Tools


How-To's and Tutorials


Theory, Philosophy, and Navel-Gazing



Digital Garden Directory

Gardener & Link 🛠 Build Tools 🌿Note Themes
Abstractxan C++ (Mizi) Tech, Art, Curating resources
Aengus McMillin Gatsby Programming, Stoicism
Alex Bilson Hugo + custom theme Business, web development, parenting and the Bible
Andy Byers Jekyll notes on coding, note taking, personal knowledge management and other random thoughts.
Andy Matuschak The Mystery Andy System Note-taking, education, tools for thought
Anne-Laure Le Cunff TiddlyWiki Networked thinking, metacognition, evidence-based learning and self-education
Aquiles Carattino Aqui Brain Dump Science. Notes on books and papers. Technology Transfer. Working in Public
Azlen Elza Design, Conversational interfaces, Tools for thought
Bill Seitz Flask/Python with WikiFlux Product management, startups, wiki theory, engineering
Blue Book MkDocs Python, DevOps, life automation, health, art, ...
Charlie Trochlil Maxime's jekyll template Learning, art, online spaces, baking
Chase McCoy Gatsby + MDX Web development, CSS, design systems
Chinarut Ruangchotvit TheBrain autobiography, personal transformation
Chris Aldrich TiddlyWiki + TiddlyBlink + TiddlyMap Art of Memory, IndieWeb, humanities, commonplace books, thought spaces
Chris Biscardi Sector / Toast? Web development, MDX, GraphQL, Gatsby
Clinton Boys org-roam + Hugo Writing, data science, math, life
Cristian Rojas Hugo Zettels theme 🇪🇸 Drawing, coding, biology, introspection
Daniel Chapman Gatsby Books, Writing, Poetry
David Ralph Lewis TiddlyWiki Writing, poetry, wellbeing, psychology
Devine Lu Linvega C Sailing, Design, Livecoding, Plan9
Fabien Benetou PmWiki (with plenty of extensions PHP/JS/NodeJS/WebXR/CSS/Processing/etc) Everytyhing but particularly programming, tools, tools for thoughts
Gordon Brander Lettersmith Design patterns, storytelling, systems
Gwern JS, CSS, Hakyll, Haskell Quantified self, spaced repetition, bitcoin
Hiran Venugopalan Obsidian + Jekyll Design, Branding, Business, Typography, Product
Ian Jones Gatsby Web development, Gatsby, Emacs
Joel Chan Roam Garden Knowledge synthesis, Scientific Creativity
Joel Hooks Gatsby + MDX Bootstrapping / indie-hacking, community building, web development,
Kevin Cummingham Gatsby Web development, React, AWS, GraphQL
Luciano Strika Jekyll Personal Wiki, Digital Garden. StrikingLoo's Haphazard Repository of Knowledge, Opinions and Trivia
Maggie Appleton Gatsby + MDX Anthropology, metaphors, visual explanations, and web development
Markus Eleventy Design, linux, privacy
Max Stoiber The Mystery Andy System React, web development
Maxime Vaillancourt Jekyll (open-source template) personal growth, ruby, web, linux
Milkii Brewster MediaWiki Various life and tech topics, mostly Linux and audio FOSS
Neil Mather Org-mode Programming, politics, climate change
Nikita Voloboev GitBook Tool obsessed. Code, web dev, art.
Oshyan Greene Discourse Productivity, Digital Gardening, Ideas, Reviews, and Recommendations
Paul Batchelor WeeWiki Computer Music, Audio Programming, Literate Programming, Food
Piotr Gaczkowski Jekyll + Roam Research as backend Book notes, Codex Vitae, cocktails, experiments
Rosano Hyperdraft + Garden Music / Design / Technology
Salman Ansari Gatsby Start-ups, engineering
Scott Spence Toast + MDX Web development, MDX, GraphQL, Gatsby, styled-components
Shawn Wang Sapper Web development, writing, speaking
Soren Bjornstad TiddlyWiki + homegrown scripts Almost everything; emphasis on tech, reading, and how to live
Steve Dondley Jekyll, vimwiki Tech, software, automation, some politics and issues
Tom Critchlow Jekyll Indie consulting
Tymon Zaniewski Jekyll (open-source template) personal wiki, DIY electronics, making music
Vlad Sitalo Roam Garden How to define code readability objectively? Applying SRS to all the things, Building Roam Garden
Wayan Jimmy Gatsby (Hasura Gitbook Starter) Coding, Learning notes
Waylon Walker Gatsby python, data-engineering, coding, learning notes
Wess Daniels Tiddlywiki (Pre-Release 5.1.23) Culture and systems change, liberation theology, tech and pedagogy
Will Stedden Custom coding a side project Machine learning, automated language generation, quantum physics art, online transparency
Yenly Ma Foamy NextJS and NextJS with MDX Digital garden of gardens. Learning and making in public.