The one thing that most digital gardens that I’ve visited seem to have, is an explanation of what a digital garden is. To my mind it’s an opportunity to explore in ones own patch of land on the internet and anything you want it to be!
When I was setting out, I came across these gems which can explain far better than I can:
🌱 A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
This article tended 4 years ago as at 17th March 25 - A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden - A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web. They’re not following the conventions of the “personal blog,” as we’ve come to know it. Rather than presenting a set of polished articles, displayed in reverse chronological order, these sites act more like free form, work-in-progress wikis.
🌱Ness Labs How to set up your own digital garden
The intro taken from the above link - A digital garden is an online space at the intersection of a notebook and a blog, where digital gardeners share seeds of thoughts to be cultivated in public. Contrary to a blog, where articles and essays have a publication date and start decaying as soon as they are published, a digital garden is evergreen: digital gardeners keep on editing and refining their notes.
🌱 My blog is a digital garden, not a blog - Joel Hooks
The phrase “digital garden” is a metaphor for thinking about writing and creating that focuses less on the resulting “showpiece” and more on the process, care, and craft it takes to get there.
🌱Obsidian
Publish - some steps https://forum.obsidian.md/t/getting-started-with-obsidian-publish-in-three-steps/14755 Creating a Digital Garden in Obsidian https://obsidian.rocks/creating-a-digital-garden-in-obsidian/?utm_content=cmp-true
Artem Kirsanov - Great simple overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6ySG7xYgjY
Aidan Helfant - More Detail - Digital Garden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvAZ9-hmWQU
🌱 How to Set Up a Digital Garden With Obsidian For Free
Prakash Joshi Pax https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kg-9n_A4Tf0
Anne-Laure Le Cunff - https://nesslabs.com/digital-garden-set-up https://nesslabs.com/digital-garden-set-up
🌱 Quartz
Quartz Quartz is a fast, batteries-included static-site generator that transforms Markdown content into fully functional websites. Thousands of students, developers, and teachers are already using Quartz to publish personal notes, websites, and digital gardens to the web.
You can find my install notes here Quartz - Gardening