This collection of apps, tools and articles is here to help you learn more about digital gardening. Ideally, it's here to help you start your own garden.

A garden is something inbetween a personal blog and a wiki. It's a collection of evolving notes, essays, and ideas that aren't strictly organised by their publication date. They're inherently exploratory – posts are linked through contextual associations. They aren't refined or complete - posts can be published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve over time. They're less rigid, less performative, and less perfect than the personal "blogs" we're used to encountering on the web.

• 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.
• 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 – 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

• 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)