digital-gardeners/README.md
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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

  • 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
  • Roam-to-Garden - Turns a Roam Research database into a Digital Garden
  • Hyperdraft - Notes app that makes it simple to create a static site from plaintext / Markdown.
  • Roam Garden - Turns a Roam Research database into a Digital Garden
  • Neuron - Managing and publishing system for plain-text Zettelkasten-style notes.

Building a Private 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:
  • 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


How-To's and Tutorials


Theory, Philosophy, and Navel-Gazing



Digital Garden Directory

Gardener & 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 Gatsby + MDX Bootstrapping / indie-hacking, community building, web development,
Ian Jones Next.js Web development, Next.js, Emacs, Unified.js
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
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
Piotr Gaczkowski Jekyll + Roam Research as backend Book notes, Codex Vitae, cocktails, experiments
Tymon Zaniewski Jekyll (open-source template) personal wiki, DIY electronics, making music
Aquiles Carattino Aqui Brain Dump Science. Notes on books and papers. Technology Transfer. Working in Public
Yenly Ma Foamy NextJS and NextJS with MDX Digital garden of gardens. Learning and making in public.
Rosano Hyperdraft + Garden Music / Design / Technology
Chase McCoy Gatsby + MDX Web development, CSS, design systems
Charlie Trochlil Maxime's jekyll template Learning, art, online spaces, baking
Hiran Venugopalan Obsidian + Jekyll Design, Branding, Business, Typography, Product
Vlad Sitalo Roam Garden How to define code readability objectively? Applying SRS to all the things, Building Roam Garden
Joel Chan Roam Garden Knowledge synthesis, Scientific Creativity
Blue Book MkDocs Python, DevOps, life automation, health, art, ...
Oshyan Greene Discourse Productivity, Digital Gardening, Ideas, Reviews, and Recommendations
Clinton Boys org-roam + Hugo Writing, data science, math, life