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# 🌿 Digital Gardens

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



## Favorites from around the web

_In no particular order:_



- [gwern.net](https://www.gwern.net/index) - super fun, super detailed personal wiki

- [Hundred Rabbits](https://100r.co/site/home.html) - wiki

- [Brendan Schlagel's Personal Canon](https://www.brendanschlagel.com/canon/) - not really a digital garden, but a collection of books, music, art, science, and other sundries that they keep returning to.

- [Enjoyment Work](https://enjoyment-work.netlify.app/) ([repo here](https://github.com/brennanbrown/enjoyment-work)) - this digital garden is packed with stuff, has extremely Brutalist web vibes and I love it. Created by [Brennan Brown](https://github.com/brennanbrown) as a catalog of his notes, a daily progress journal, and a blog (_"...the final step for process of smart note-taking."_

- [re1.dev](https://re1.dev/wiki/)

- [WebSeitz/wiki](https://web.archive.org/web/20200525141016/http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki/FrontPage)

- [Tom Critchlow's Wiki](https://tomcritchlow.com/wiki) - aka a digital garden aka a hypertext. Organized into well defined categories.

- [Maggie Appleton's Garden](https://maggieappleton.com/garden) - an open collection of notes, resources, sketches, and explorations.

- [Andy Matuschak's Working Notes](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes) - the man, the myth, the legend, the digital garden every other digital gardener has been inspired by.

- [Ian Jones's Digital Garden](https://www.ianjones.us/digital-garden) - the layer between Jones's raw notes and the essays he publishes.

- [allenleein/brains](https://github.com/allenleein/brains)

- [The Refined Mind](https://refinedmind.co/) - 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](https://tomcritchlow.com/2019/02/17/building-digital-garden/) - from Tom Critchlow

- [_🌱 My blog is a digital garden, not a blog_](https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden) - an introduction to the concept of digital gardens.



## Gardening tools

- [Mindforger](https://www.mindforger.com/) (repo: [dvorka/mindforger](https://github.com/dvorka/mindforger)) - Markdown editor and knowledge management tool

- [Dendron](https://dendron.so/) - open source note-taking tool built on top of VSCode.

- [Semantic MediaWiki (SMW)](https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki) - an extension to MediaWiki and framework for turning a wiki into a knowledge management system. See also: [Semantic Web](https://www.semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Semantic_Web)

- [are.na](https://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](https://web.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](https://www.uprtcl.io/) (repo: [uprtcl/spec](https://github.com/uprtcl/spec))

- [mymind](https://mymind.com/)

- [digital-garden](https://github.com/rust-adventure/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](https://plaintextproject.online/index.html) - 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](https://plaintextproject.online/tools.html)

- [Turn Your Website into a Library](https://blog.openlibrary.org/2018/05/06/turn-your-website-into-a-library/) - from the Open Library blog. Concept similar to Schlagel's Personal Canon.

- [Codex Vitae](https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Codex-Vitae-rRJ8akyi4ky4Sdc8CQscV) - a public, living (and dying) book of one man's beliefs. An interesting read and concept.

- [Notation and thought (@hypotext/notation)](https://github.com/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