maggieappleton/digital-gardeners

This repository is a curated collection of tools, articles, and examples related to "digital gardening," a term for a style of publishing personal notes and ideas on the web. The README defines a digital garden as something between a personal blog and a wiki: a set of notes that grow and change over time, are linked to each other by topic rather than sorted strictly by date, and are allowed to be rough or incomplete. The concept was popularized by educator Mike Caulfield in a 2015 essay, and has since developed a small community of practitioners. The bulk of the repository is an organized list of links grouped into categories. The tools section covers apps and frameworks for building a public or private digital garden, including note-taking tools like Obsidian and TiddlyWiki, static site generators like Jekyll and Eleventy with pre-built garden themes, and Roam Research together with several conversion tools for publishing a Roam graph to the open web. There is also a section on extra utilities like Webmentions, which let your notes receive and display responses from other websites. Beyond tools, the repository links to tutorials for setting up a garden using specific platforms, theoretical writing about what digital gardens are and why the format is interesting, and a gallery of example gardens built by real people. A further section covers related concepts like Zettelkasten, a note-linking method from academic research, and personal knowledge management more broadly. The repository itself does not contain any original software or code you can run. It is a reference list maintained by Maggie Appleton, a designer and writer who writes about the history and culture of digital gardening. If you are looking for a quick starting point, the README includes a guide written specifically for non-technical readers.