Digital Gardening

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

Tools and Resources

• The Knowledge Graph Radar
• WebMentions
• Hypothesis - social meta commentary

Private Notes

• Roam
• Org Roam
• Obsidian - a Roam-like knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.

Public Notes

• TiddlyWiki - A no-code personal wiki system
• Stroll - A Roam-like tool built on 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 Theme Garden - A set of tools to build a digital garden with Gatsby.js. Pull data from Roam Research or markdown.

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

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

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

• 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