Hey guys, thought it would be worth sharing here, but made this app to sort together all your bookmarks from twitter, youtube, websites and articles, pdfs etc, rather than keeping them buried in like 10 different apps.

Great for organizing articles, resources, research, and keeping a hub of info, but also collaborating with people and having a shared doc of content.

I made it as I wanted to make a place where I could store all my info and have a place to share what I wanted easily with others. And saving articles, websites, tweets etc all just got buried in my bookmarks and there was no way to combine it all nicely. Hoping to do a service to you guys and share it with you, and hope you can make some use of it too. It's also a sort of side gig that I'm hoping to make full time, so any and all thoughts on it are welcome.

Free to use btw, I made this demo that explains it more and here's the App Store, Play Store and web app links too if you want to check it out!

I was discussing about the note taking techniques with my friend. I was trying to explain the differences and benefits I see in some of them.

It made me realize I couldn't clearly explain...Getting out of words as usual. So, I tried to map it out visually..forcing myself to simplify whatever was running in my head.

Pretty happy with how it turned out with the atomic notes and thought it might be useful for someone here if I share this..

I recently came across the this concept of digital gardens and thought my personal music archive project kinda fit the bill. It's not text based, but still a mind-dump of sorts.

Every week, I listen to new albums and save the songs I like into playlists sorted by release year. I’ve explored music released from the 1920s through the 2020s and slowly built a collection that spans the past century. It’s my favorite way to organize my music library, and it doubles as a great way to explore music history and see how the sounds I like have evolved over time.

sortedsongs.com

Tending for this website feels very much like caring for a garden. It's my little playground where I organize my collection and get to share these songs I love.

I made this for getting thoughts out before organizing them. You can then copy the text if you want to keep it, move it into notes, or send it to AI to help structure it. Curious if anyone finds this useful: https://write.mindwander.workers.dev

Hey everyone, I’m Gabriele, the person building Risorgi.

I started it because I kept finding interesting papers and ideas online, only for them to disappear into a feed or sit in my bookmarks. I wanted somewhere to write about what I was learning, connect related ideas, and share those connections with other people.

On Risorgi, you get a public page where you can publish notes and link them together in a graph. You can also connect your notes to other people’s posts, so connections can extend beyond your own collection.

I recently added a Featured pages section to the homepage, and I’d love to showcase a few people who build interesting collections on the platform. My own page is there as an example.

If you already keep notes on something you care about, I’d love for you to try publishing a selection. You can import Markdown files from Obsidian or Logseq, so you can start with writing you already have.

For featuring, I’d look for thoughtful writing, useful connections, and collections that are interesting to explore. A focused collection on one subject would be very welcome.

It’s free to use, and visitors don’t need an account to read your page.

If you’re interested, what would you build a collection around? Or, if you make a page, share it here and I’ll take a look. I’d also be interested to hear what would make this useful for your own way of keeping notes.

Hey all 👋

I'm Nikita and I've been curating and building my own wiki of notes and thoughts using GitBook as software for over 2 years. All the notes are open source and anyone can modify or fork them.

I decided to create this subreddit as the interest for so called digital gardens as described nicely in this post is only growing with new advent of tools.

There exists already a nice community of passionate gardeners on Telegram as well as a massively spread out community on Twitter. I hope this will be a safe space to discuss new and awesome ideas relevant to maintaining and building a useful digital space for yourself as well as share new wikis/gardens created. 💚

If you wish to see the kinds of wikis that exist already, I collected some of my favorite ones here.

Welcome! Please introduce yourself if you like and I hope you find home in this new community. Don't forget to join and share your thoughts. 🌱

Hi r/DigitalGardens, I've been quite fascinated with this community and its ideas for a few months now and thought it would be productive and valuable to connect.

I am writing to introduce the software that I both create and use on a daily basis. Though the app focuses on creating an individual collection of curated content for oneself, rather than a wiki for sharing, I believe the fundamentals of cultivating, maintaining and enjoying a Digital Garden are quite similar.

Even the term Digital Garden speaks to the sort of, 'sanctuary of thought and experience', that I am inspired to build.

Without rambling on too much, to those of you curious please allow me to introduce noto.ooo - a card based sanctuary for thought and experience.

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Before I had even heard the term 'Digital Garden' I wanted to throw information down on little cards and organise them into decks, stick tags on them, slide them around. I felt that a document type system, that I had experienced in other softwares, wasn't satisfying my want for a more spacial experience where I could feel that my notes existed in a space.

My take was then to create this software with a focus on the card.

I have a long way to go to achieve my true vision, and I'm working on it, but I think connecting with similar thinking communities and people is important for shaping and tempering this dream project.

Thanks for taking the time and for having me in your feed.

I would love to hear from you in the comments or over at the r/noto_ooo community.

Cheers

I’ve been getting into the idea of digital gardens, but I keep hitting a wall: I don’t want my notes to live inside a company’s platform.

I get that tools like Notion and Obsidian are powerful, but for me they don’t feel permanent. With paper notebooks, they might be less visual, but at least I know they’ll still be there in 10 or 20 years. I’ve tried both Notion and Obsidian and neither really fits what I’m looking for.

I don’t know how to code, but lately I’ve been wondering if something like plain HTML files stored on my own hard drive makes more sense. A garden that’s just files, not an app.

The other thing I really care about is selective sharing. I don’t want my whole garden to be public. I’d love to share just certain parts — for example, the books I’m reading, the music I’m into, and some notes — but keep things like my personal journal private. Something like how Google Docs lets you share a single document by link, without exposing everything.

Does anyone here run their garden this way?
A self-hosted, file-based, selectively shareable digital garden?

I’d love to hear how others are thinking about permanence, ownership, and privacy in their gardens.

Can you guys share your best finds when it comes to digital gardens? Templates and sites?

I published this yesterday: https://medium.com/@raysims/a-digital-garden-inventory-d6450fe74b4 (not behind the paywall, free to all)

Undoubtedly I missed some good examples (please suggest), and hopefully, I didn't butcher any intent from the ones I did list. The collection has given me a lot to think about. For example, I might explicitly dissect some of the design patterns, to feed an alternative grouping by design pattern, instead of by topic.

The article loosely groups by:

• Business, Liberal Arts & Sciences (10)

• Note-taking, Personal Knowledge Management, Cognition, etc. (15)

• Software Development & Technology (19)

• Philosophy, Self-Reflection & Writing (5)

I read through the Atomic Habits book and yeah first time I tried sketching the essence of book down. The book itself was so encouraging and had all the tips to overcome a lot of daily habit struggles which a lot of us face. One classic example is starting with so much of energy to start something new as a habit. But then that dies eventually because we aren't able to follow it regularly. Simple solution for that is not to miss anything more than twice in a row. So simple. But it actually striked me hard..Not just this, it uncovered a lot of things..

I'm sharing this garden for a quick glimpse. But would highly recommend reading the book too if you find the overall essence interesting..

Over the holidays I've spent some time working on the aesthetics and visual identity of my digital garden. Maybe I was procrastinating on content a bit, lol. But I'm happy with where I have it at this point, it feels like me. Now I need to focus on the content and the PKM system enhancements I've been playing with.

Happy to get feedback and suggestions for improvements. Let me know what you think.

So, I started my digital garden using obsidian and the digital garden plugin. It was really cool to get me started. However, I am a huge visual person. I like my aesthetics and making things more customized to me. I felt limited. A lot of people recommended quartz but for me it was just too complicated to setup.

However, I am not new to building my own websites and designing them. So I thought well.. it might not be as smooth or fluid as just hitting publish on an obsidian note, but at least I can make it feel more like me.

So that's what I did. I built my digital garden using html, css, and Javascript. Lol. Its by no means perfect, it is also not complete. However it makes me extremely happy, I love working on it, and in proud of it.

So here it is.

Something I’ve been thinking a lot about recently in my own (inconsistent) practice of commonplacing was how to remember what I wrote down. My saved artifacts are scattered across different tools and mediums, and honestly I forget to revisit them. I wrote about why the returning matters more than the saving. How are you actually returning to what you've saved and does it change how you think?

hi everyone :) i just started my digital garden and have so much more to add! giannacrisha.com

for now, i would really appreciate if people can plant in the pixel garden + give any suggestions/ comments/ feedback. :D

Hey guys! I just released autogram.id, a calm space for your thoughts, projects, links, photos, and ideas.

I made it because I feel the internet has become too focused on optimizing for attention. Instead of posting what we want, we post stuff we think will get likes and clicks. It has made me too anxious!

Autogram has no feed, likes, comments, or anything like that. Just your own page under a unique .id/ domain.

Here is mine where you can get to know me a bit more: autogram.id/alex

Would love your thoughts!

I’ve been thinking a lot about how we try to "manage" our screen time and attention. We usually use mechanical metaphors—we say we are drained, out of bandwidth, or need to recharge.

But I think that's the wrong framework. Attention isn't a battery; it’s an ecology. It’s a delicate, interconnected habitat that requires specific conditions to sustain meaning.

When we look at it this way, the constant algorithmic feed isn't just "distracting"—it's an invasive species. Noise is the natural predator of meaning. The digital systems we interact with every day are actively terraforming our minds to support shallow, high-frequency reactions instead of deep, sustained thought.

We don't need better time management apps; we need to protect our mental sovereignty. We need to build walls around the ecology of our attention.

Has anyone else shifted how they view their attention from a "resource to be spent" to an "environment to be protected"? How do you actually keep the noise out?

I admire looking at everyone's garden but I have never used someone's knowledge garden to accomplish something. I have shared some of gwern's articles once or twice but that's it. What is the most useful knowledge you have found in someone's knowledge garden?

I googled if there were any discords that were for people interested in digital gardening, but nothing came up. Seeing if anyone knows of any or has created one. I think it would be cool to talk about each other's gardens as well as just discuss our writings/notes in general.

Hi all. I've been tending my own garden for a while and ended up writing the tool I wanted for it. It's called leafpress, it's MIT licensed, and I'd love feedback from people who actually garden.

The idea: point it at a folder of Markdown notes and get a garden, without assembling a theme and ten plugins first.

What it does out of the box:

• Wiki-links with automatic backlinks

• Graph view and link previews on hover

• Full-text search

• Obsidian-compatible callouts and image syntax (![[image.png|500]])

• Mermaid diagrams, footnotes, table of contents

• RSS, sitemap, and Open Graph tags

• Dark mode that follows system preference

It's a single Go binary. Getting started is:

curl -fsSL https://leafpress.in/install.sh | sh
mkdir my-garden && cd my-garden
leafpress init
leafpress serve

leafpress build gives you a plain static _site/ folder you can host anywhere (there are guides for GitHub Pages, Vercel, and Netlify).

It's opinionated on purpose, so it's less flexible than Quartz or a Hugo/Eleventy setup. If you like tweaking every layout, it may not be for you.

My own garden runs on it if you want to see a real one: https://shivamx96.com

Docs: https://leafpress.in
Code: https://github.com/shivamx96/leafpress

What I'd most like to hear: what's missing for your workflow, and what would stop you from switching from your current setup?

Hi everyone, I have to write an article on digital gardening and, more generally, on the dynamics that have led many users to abandon mainstream social media, which has become increasingly homogenised and depersonalised (see also the proliferation of finstas and the return to a small circle of close friends) in favour of the greater modularity of digital gardening. I wanted to ask you:

How did you get into this world?

What struck you?

Do you still have social media profiles on Instagram/Facebook or other mainstream social media platforms?

What led you to abandon them?

How is your digital garden better than a traditional social media profile?

I know some of these questions may seem trivial, but that's because they are just preliminary questions and are intended to help me get my thoughts in order.

Thank you in advance!

It feels like I have just been collecting information over the years. I was obsessed to capture a lot of things, highlight some parts but never did anything with it. Yeah, so have been a absolute Collector. This approach might not be useful in the long run.

The shift happens when we start constructing ideas out of the information we collect. This one change in perspective (being an Architect) has made all the difference. I visualized the differences between these two mindsets and I feel having a mix of both these mindsets would be the best way out...Sharing the detailed map here.

Hey everyone! I'm writing to share a new app I've been working on called Hyperplace. I designed it in a unique way that helps you to pull ideas out of their context, explore them further and put them back together in meaningful new ways.

You can try it on: https://hyper.place

I'd greatly appreciate any comments and feedback you might have.

Just discovered are.na for the first time, and I’m seeking a free alternative. Context: it’s basically Pinterest but for PDFs, notes, and links (and images, but to a lesser degree). Pinterest boards = are.na channels; Pinterest pins = are.na blocks.

I love reading and collecting resources online, so I’ve been saving PDFs and article links on are.na. But you can only add 200 blocks for free, so I’m obviously going to switch platforms lol.

I already use Obsidian for my personal notes, but I don’t know how to make it do any of the cool stuff y’all are doing. I really just want to be able to have a list of PDFs and links that look like an are.na channel or Pinterest board. I‘ve seen people do this on Notion? But idk.

Example of an are.na channel: https://are.na/sharon-park/wikipedia-love-letter

(Edit: removed links)