🌿 Digital Gardens

🌻🌼🌺🌷🌿🍄🍄🌳🌱 Inspirational digital gardens and resources for building your own.

Favorites from around the web

In no particular order:

• gwern.net - super fun, super detailed personal wiki
• Hundred Rabbits - wiki
• Brendan Schlagel's Personal Canon - not really a digital garden, but a collection of books, music, art, science, and other sundries that they keep returning to.
• Enjoyment Work (repo here) - this digital garden is packed with stuff, has extremely Brutalist web vibes and I love it. Created by Brennan Brown as a catalog of his notes, a daily progress journal, and a blog ("...the final step for process of smart note-taking."
• re1.dev
• WebSeitz/wiki
• Tom Critchlow's Wiki - aka a digital garden aka a hypertext. Organized into well defined categories.
• Maggie Appleton's Garden - an open collection of notes, resources, sketches, and explorations.
• Andy Matuschak's Working Notes - the man, the myth, the legend, the digital garden every other digital gardener has been inspired by.
• Ian Jones's Digital Garden - the layer between Jones's raw notes and the essays he publishes.
• allenleein/brains
• The Refined Mind - The public workspace of Mike Tannenbaum, exploring life amid the modern challenges the Internet created.

How to create a digital garden of your own

Guides, blog posts, tips, and tricks for creating your own garden.

• Building a digital garden - from Tom Critchlow
• 🌱 My blog is a digital garden, not a blog - an introduction to the concept of digital gardens.

Gardening tools

• Mindforger (repo: dvorka/mindforger) - Markdown editor and knowledge management tool
• Dendron - open source note-taking tool built on top of VSCode.
• Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) - an extension to MediaWiki and framework for turning a wiki into a knowledge management system. See also: Semantic Web
• are.na - Platform for building personal knowledge libraries. Somewhat social, has a browser plugin for saving webpages, excerpts, and images to your channels.
• Hypothes.is - Browser extension for adding commentary everywhere on the web

In development

These tools are actively being developed and in beta; they all look super exciting.

• _Prtcl (repo: uprtcl/spec)
• mymind
• digital-garden - Content authoring tool with bidirectional links and a built-in markdown renderer written in Rust.

Misc.

Complementary projects to motivate you.

• The Plain Text Project - a project dedicated to showing the world that you don't need fancy software to work and stay organized: all you need is plain text.
  • their ever-expanding list of tools to help you make the jump
• Turn Your Website into a Library - from the Open Library blog. Concept similar to Schlagel's Personal Canon.
• Codex Vitae - a public, living (and dying) book of one man's beliefs. An interesting read and concept.
• Notation and thought (@hypotext/notation) - an exploration on how working in a particular notational system may influence the ways that people think and create in it.

TODO

• Organize the Gardening Tools section into categories
• Denote what tools I use