digital-gardeners/README.md

Digital Gardening

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

Gardening Tools

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

Public Garden Notes

• TiddlyWiki - A no-code personal wiki system
  • Stroll a notetaking tool built with the TiddlyWiki platform, with bi-directional links and other Roam-like features
  • TiddlyBlink - TiddlyWiki with bi-directional linking
  • 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.

Private Notes

• Roam - A personal notes system for interconnected thought
• Org Roam
• Obsidian - a Roam-like knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

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

• 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: A Techno pastoral by Mike Caulfield
• The Garden and the Stream: An IndieWeb Pop-up Session
• The Swale: Weaving between Garden and Stream by Will Stedden

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

• The Knowledge Graph Radar
• Zettlekasten: 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

Each listed with 🛠 build tools and 🌿 note themes

• Andy Matuschuk

  • 🛠 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

• Shawn Wang

  • 🛠 Gatsby
  • 🌿 Web development, writing, speaking

• Kevin Cummingham

  • 🛠 Gatsby
  • 🌿 Web development, React, AWS, GraphQL

• Aengus McMillin

  • 🛠 Gatsby

• Alzen 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

• 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

• Wayan Jimmy

  • 🛠 Gatsby (Hasura Gitbook Starter)
  • 🌿 Coding, Learning notes

• Markus

  • 🛠 Eleventy
  • 🌿 Design, linux, privacy

• Max Stoiber

  • 🛠 The Mystery Andy System
  • 🌿 React, web development

• Gwern

  • 🌿 Quantified self, spaced repetition, bitcoin

• Chris Aldrich

  • 🛠 TiddlyWiki + TiddlyBlink + TiddlyMap
  • 🌿 Art of Memory, IndieWeb, humanities, commonplace books, thought spaces

• Neil Mather

  • 🛠 Org-mode

• Gordon Brander

  • 🛠 Lettersmith
  • 🌿 Design patterns, storytelling, systems

• Bill Seitz

  • 🛠 Flask/Python with WikiFlux

• Daniel Chapman

  • 🛠 Gatsby
  • 🌿 Books, Writing, Poetry

• Will Stedden

  • 🛠 Custom coding a side project

• Noah Trenaman

  • 🛠 Unknown platform
  • 🌿 neural networks, tools for thought, networked writing