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 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.
• Simply Jekyll - A Jekyll theme with bidirectional links, sidenotes, and transclusion
• Foam - Roam-like personal note management and publishing system built inside VSCode

Building a Private Garden

• 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.

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

• 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

Garderner & Link	🛠 Build Tools	🌿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	Indie consulting
Shawn Wang	Gatsby	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
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
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	Machine learning, automated language generation, quantum physics art, online transparency
Noah Trenaman		Neural networks, tools for thought, networked writing