A collective of gardeners publicly tending their digital notes on the interwebs
- 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
- See the following resources for converting your private garden in Roam to a public garden:
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- Org Roam - non-hierarchical note-taking with org-mode in emacs
- TheBrain - A tool for taking interconnected notes with an interactive graph.
- 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 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
- 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
- 5 No Code Digital Gardening Tools by Ian Jones
- The Garden and the Stream: A Techno pastoral by Mike Caulfield
- 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
- The Knowledge Graph Radar
- 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)
| 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 | 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 | 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 | Toast + 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 |
| David Ralph Lewis | TiddlyWiki | Writing, poetry, wellbeing, psychology |
| Soren Bjornstad | TiddlyWiki + homegrown scripts | Almost everything; emphasis on tech, reading, and how to live |
| Paul Batchelor | WeeWiki | Computer Music, Audio Programming, Literate Programming, Food |