Digital Gardens
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.
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.