Digital Gardening

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

Gardening Tools

Building a Public Garden

• 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
• Dendron - A structured note taking tool that merges the freedom of Roam-like linking with the order hierarchical organization

Building a Private Garden

• Roam - A personal notes system for interconnected thought
• Org Roam - non-hierarchical note-taking with org-mode in emacs
• Obsidian - a Roam-like knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
• TheBrain - A tool for taking interconnected notes with an interactive graph.

Extra Gardening Tools

• Webmentions - About the Webmentions system
  • Webmention.io - A service to add Webmentions to your Garden
• Hypothesis - A layer of social meta commentary

How-To's and Tutorials

• How to build a digital garden with TiddlyWiki by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
• Install org-roam: an introductory technical guide with Doom Emacs by Ian Jones
• Building a Digital Garden by Tom Critchlow
• Webmentions - Joining the IndieWeb with Svelte by Shawn Wang

Theory, Philosophy, and Navel-Gazing

• The Garden and the Stream: A Techno pastoral by Mike Caulfield
• Of Digital Streams, Campfires and Gardens by Tom Critchlow
• How the Blog Broke the Web by Amy Hoy
• My blog is a digital garden, not a blog by Joel Hooks
• You and your mind garden by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
• Digital Garden Terms of Service by Shawn Wang
• What is a digital garden? by Chris Biscardi
• The Garden and the Stream: An IndieWeb Pop-up Session
• The Swale: Weaving between Garden and Stream by Will Stedden
• A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden by Maggie Appleton

Common Groud: Zettelkasten, Knowledge Graphs, Wikis, and Related Concepts

• The Knowledge Graph Radar
• Zettelkasten: knowledge and info management
• The Zettelkasten Method by Abram Demski
• A web of wikis by Neil Mather
• Bliki tooling by Neil Mather
• Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook, Getting Things Done, And Other Systems by Bill Seitz
• As We May Think by Vannevar Bush (The Atlantic, 1945)

Digital Garden Directory

Garderner & Link	🛠 Build Tools	🌿Note Themes
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
Tom Critchlow	Jekyll	Indie consulting
Shawn Wang	Sapper	Web development, writing, speaking
Kevin Cummingham	Gatsby	Web development, React, AWS, GraphQL
Maggie Appleton	Gatsby + MDX	Anthropology, metaphors, visual explanations, and web development
Chris Biscardi	Sector / Toast?	Web development, MDX, GraphQL, Gatsby
Wess Daniels	Tiddlywiki (Pre-Release 5.1.23)	Culture and systems change, liberation theology, tech and pedagogy
Aengus McMillin	Gatsby	Programming, Stoicism
Azlen Elza		Design, Conversational interfaces, Tools for thought
Joel Hooks	Next.js	Bootstrapping / indie-hacking, community building, web development,
Ian Jones	Gatsby	Web development, Gatsby, Emacs
Wayan Jimmy	Gatsby (Hasura Gitbook Starter)	Coding, Learning notes
Markus	Eleventy	Design, linux, privacy
Max Stoiber	The Mystery Andy System	React, web development
Gwern	JS, CSS, Hakyll, Haskell	Quantified self, spaced repetition, bitcoin
Chris Aldrich	TiddlyWiki + TiddlyBlink + TiddlyMap	Art of Memory, IndieWeb, humanities, commonplace books, thought spaces
Neil Mather	Org-mode	Programming, politics, climate change
Gordon Brander	Lettersmith	Design patterns, storytelling, systems
Bill Seitz	Flask/Python with WikiFlux	Product management, startups, wiki theory, engineering
Daniel Chapman	Gatsby	Books, Writing, Poetry
Will Stedden	Custom coding a side project	Machine learning, automated language generation, quantum physics art, online transparency
Salman Ansari	Gatsby	Start-ups, engineering
Fabien Benetou	PmWiki (with plenty of extensions PHP/JS/NodeJS/WebXR/CSS/Processing/etc)	Everytyhing but particularly programming, tools, tools for thoughts
Waylon Walker	Gatsby	python, data-engineering, coding, learning notes
Cristian Rojas	Hugo Zettels theme	🇪🇸 Drawing, coding, biology, introspection
Chinarut Ruangchotvit	TheBrain	autobiography, personal transformation
Steve Dondley	Jekyll, vimwiki	Tech, software, automation, some politics and issues
Scott Spence	Gatsby + MDX	Web development, MDX, GraphQL, Gatsby, styled-components
Devine Lu Linvega	C	Sailing, Design, Livecoding, Plan9
Yusuf Parak	Vue, Nuxt, Nuxt-Content	Design, engineering, startups, indiehacking, Software
Milkii Brewster	MediaWiki	Various life and tech topics, mostly Linux and audio FOSS
Maxime Vaillancourt	Jekyll (open-source template)	personal growth, ruby, web, linux
Andy Byers	Jekyll	notes on coding, note taking, personal knowledge management and other random thoughts.
Abstractxan	C++ (Mizi)	Tech, Art, Curating resources
Nikita Voloboev	GitBook	Tool obsessed. Code, web dev, art.
Luciano Strika	Jekyll	Personal Wiki, Digital Garden. StrikingLoo's Haphazard Repository of Knowledge, Opinions and Trivia
Aquiles Carattino	Aqui Brain Dump	Science. Notes on books and papers. Technology Transfer. Working in Public