Resources, links, projects, and ideas for gardeners tending their digital notes on the public interwebs
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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.
See the Theory, Philosophy, and Navel-gazing section for more on the 'what' of gardens.
⭐️ = Featured; unique and exceptional examples
Gardener & Link | 🛠 Build Tools | 🌿Note Themes |
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⭐️ Andy Matuschak | The Mystery Andy System | Note-taking, education, tools for thought |
⭐️ Gwern | JS, CSS, Hakyll, Haskell | Quantified self, spaced repetition, bitcoin |
⭐️ Azlen Elza | Notion + Python | Design, Conversational interfaces, Tools for thought |
⭐️ Buster Benson | Behaviour change, dialogue, systems thinking | |
⭐️ Tom Critchlow | Jekyll | Indie consulting |
⭐️ Chris Aldrich | TiddlyWiki + TiddlyBlink + TiddlyMap | Art of Memory, IndieWeb, humanities, commonplace books, thought spaces |
⭐️ Gordon Brander | Lettersmith | Design patterns, storytelling, systems |
⭐️ Bill Seitz | Flask/Python with WikiFlux | Product management, startups, wiki theory, engineering |
⭐️ Alex Komoroske | Cards Web – a custom OS platform | Complexity theory, design, systems thinking |
⭐️ Nikita Voloboev | GitBook | Tool obsessed. Code, web dev, art. |
Anne-Laure Le Cunff | TiddlyWiki | Networked thinking, metacognition, evidence-based learning and self-education |
Shawn Wang | Sapper | Web development, writing, speaking |
Kevin Cummingham | Gatsby | Web development, React, AWS, GraphQL |
Maggie Appleton | Next.js | Anthropology, metaphors, visual explanations, and web development |
Chris Biscardi | Sector / Toast? | Web development, MDX, GraphQL, Gatsby |
Neil Mather | Org-mode | Programming, politics, climate change |
Wess Daniels | Tiddlywiki (Pre-Release 5.1.23) | Culture and systems change, liberation theology, tech and pedagogy |
Aengus McMillin | Gatsby | Programming, Stoicism |
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 |
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 |
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 |
Memento | MkDocs, MkDocs Newsletter | Python, GNU/Linux, DevOps, Flutter, traveling, cooking, ... |
Jacky Zhao | Quartz | Books, Cognitive Sciences, Education, Technology, and whatever else I happen to be reading |