GitHub - MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners: Resources, links, projects, and ideas for gardeners tending their digital notes on the public interwebs

Digital Gardening Tools and Resources

What is "digital gardening"?

Gardening Tools

Building a Public 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:
• Roam Garden a service that does all the setup for you based on JSON export
• Gatsby Theme Garden Gatsby theme that supports using Roam as a source
• Roam-to-Garden Jekyll based converter for your Roam Data

• Obsidian - a Roam-like knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files. Also allows you to publish selections of your graph to the open web.

• 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

• Jekyll-Bonsai - A modern jekyll theme for semantically inclined digital gardeners.

• Jekyll Garden - Clean Jekyll theme supporting bidirectional 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

• Hyperdraft - Turns plain markdown notes into a website as you write. Easy to setup and doesn't require builds or deploys.

• Neuron - Managing and publishing system for plain-text Zettelkasten-style notes.

• Innos Notes – Features include parallel pages, content blocks, and knowledge graph visualisations.

• Trilium Notes - A hierarchical note taking application with focus on building large personal knowledge bases.

• Quartz - Publish your Obsidian or Roam digital garden to the web for free. Includes full-text search, graph visualization, and backlinks.

Building a Private Garden

• Bangle.io - A simple, markdown-based notetaking app that runs locally on your machine.

• Org Roam - non-hierarchical note-taking with org-mode in emacs

• TheBrain - A tool for taking interconnected notes with an interactive graph.

• The Archive - A fast plain text Markdown note-taking app with Zettelkasten features like linking and tagging.

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

• mkdocs-newsletter - An add-on to the MKdocs platform that generates a newsletter logging which pages have changed

How-To's and Tutorials

• How to build a digital garden with TiddlyWiki by Anne-Laure Le Cunff

• Own Your Second Brain: Set Up org-roam on Your Own Machine by Ian Jones

• Building a Digital Garden by Tom Critchlow

• Webmentions - Joining the IndieWeb with Svelte by Shawn Wang

• How to plant a Garden a video walkthrough for converting your RoamResearch DB into a public garden by Vlad Sitalo

• Digital Gardening for Non-Technical Folks by Maggie Appleton

Theory, Philosophy, and Navel-Gazing

• The Garden and the Stream: A Techno pastoral by Mike Caulfield – the original source of the concept of Digital Gardening

• 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 Ground: Zettelkasten, Knowledge Graphs, Wikis, and Related Concepts

• 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

Other digital garden compilations:

• Nikita's compilation

• Richard Litt's compilation

• KasperZutterman's compilation

• Best-of Digital Gardens