Aside from this site being my own digital garden. Here are resources to find out more about them. My own sort of evolution and how I intend to use it is described here.

Resources

• Maggie Appleton - Just a beautiful site that shows a lovely and evolving landscape of thoughts in an easy to understand taxonomy.
• A reddit post - Just a ton of links and examples
• Andy's Notes- It's minimal but fun to explore and a different way to do things since it's explorable through links, not indexes. I like the concept.

Tech Stack

I do my writing in Obsidian.md. It can do a whole lot more than just write markdown.

Obsidian Plugins

• Digital Garden - This is what lets me publish straight from Obsidian. It's great, and clever.
• Word Sprint - I like writing with a timer. It forces me to get the words out.
• Various Complements - This behaves like autocomplete from an IDE. As you type it'll suggest internal links to add. This helps with finding ways to connect new ideas.
• Dataview - This is the magic that lets you "query" across notes quickly to create lists, tables, and other things.
• Linter - This one is odd, but I need explicit control over how the creation and update dates for my notes work. The syncing across devices and such will look like every file changes when nothing does. So controlling the dates helps me reduce churn in my site and feed.xml. This plugin automatically does this for me.

Hosting

Hosting is provided with a free tier of Netlify. It publishes with hooks from github.

Behind the scenes

Not that it matters, but the flow goes from Obsidian to a private github repo that is a template from Digital Gardens that is actually a 11ty static site. That is then picked up by Netlify and published.

You can read more of the technical details here: How to build the digital garden