🌻🌼🌺🌷🌿🍄🍄🌳🌱 Inspirational digital gardens and resources for building your own.
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.
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.
- 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
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.
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.
- 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.
- Organize the Gardening Tools section into categories
- Denote what tools I use