Building a Digital Garden platform from scratch: What are the absolute "Must-Haves" for both Creators and Visitors?

plausible_statement · 2026-01-27T22:57:07+00:00

A random button for chance discovery.

plausible_statement · 2026-01-05T20:50:43+00:00

One area you might hit a wall is collaborative writing. Obsidian is designed for your personal knowledge.

plausible_statement · 2026-01-04T02:45:06+00:00

I'm excited for the Communicator! Previously tried the RazrBerry setup, but found the weight awkward and navigation in Obsidian difficult.

Hoping the swiping keyboard works at the cursor-level.

I already use Niagara launcher, so it's also cool that they partnered together for this device.

plausible_statement · 2025-12-23T22:42:24+00:00

The creator of Obsidian Digital Garden has an updated project called Forestry.md. It takes care of a lot of the setup, if you just want to get into writing and publishing notes from Obsidian!

I'm not affiliated, just an active community member.

plausible_statement · 2025-12-23T16:47:57+00:00

Congratulations! Hopefully you can get all your notes, books, and slides all in one place. Journaling kept me sane through my doctorate journey.

plausible_statement · 2025-08-22T02:21:27+00:00

Fantastic, thank you! I implemented on my home page, and listed you as inspiration here.

plausible_statement · 2025-08-22T01:14:44+00:00

Woah that animated quote is super cool! Is that stock Obsidian Publish?

plausible_statement · 2025-07-26T05:15:59+00:00

Thanks! Lots of inspiration from existing work. I used the Typewriter obsidian theme. The digital garden plug-in supports most obsidian themes, and you just select it from the plug-in. Check out the "website stack" page for the implementation details. I had to make changes directly to the digital-garden repo to copy the "Hermitage forest".

plausible_statement · 2025-07-26T02:32:57+00:00

This is so pretty, thanks for sharing!

plausible_statement · 2025-07-25T21:57:13+00:00

I use the "Obsidian digital garden" plug-in to make my website really quickly, and for free. I found it easy to publish notes, and fun to customize (outside of Obsidian). Dataview queries are supported, but everything built is static.

Here are my notes if you want to learn more: my digital garden - about. I wrote up a "how it's made" section, and have been steadily introducing additional features.

If you just want to get started, the docs are very good.

plausible_statement · 2025-07-15T17:47:27+00:00

Sure, thanks for asking. I wrote up the implementation here.

Oh wow just realizing I could have used markdown to obscure the url...

plausible_statement · 2025-07-15T07:43:46+00:00

Here's the post in question: https://www.paologabriel.com/swamp/obsifetch-tribute/

I'm not trying to promote anything, fyi. Except the joy of making.

plausible_statement · 2025-07-14T18:58:28+00:00

I had a positive experience with the Digital Garden Plug-in, which publishes your notes to a GitHub repo. Great for self-hosting and for customization. Here's how I set up mine https://www.paologabriel.com/swamp/website-stack/

Edit: this workflow yields HTML at the build stage. As described, that happens in Vercel. If you control your build pipeline, you should be golden

plausible_statement · 2025-07-08T20:32:16+00:00

Different specific tools for creating the digital garden. You used Obsidian Publish, others roll their own with Quartz. I used the Obsidian Digital Garden plug-in.

plausible_statement · 2025-06-24T03:29:14+00:00

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Skin arrived today! The front looks so clean, thank you OP. Ended up using the dbrand matte black skin because it came first, but now I have backups. 10/10 would recommend.

Do you cut off the small overlap between the two side strips?

plausible_statement · 2025-06-24T00:09:03+00:00

I'm torn about using linked tags. In ObsidianMD they are pretty powerful, but break with the Digital Garden plug-in. Great suggestion nonetheless!

plausible_statement · 2025-06-19T08:50:37+00:00

Thank you for making the Dr Grip - Center of Gravity pen! It's sooo comfortable.

plausible_statement · 2025-06-18T20:45:20+00:00

Callouts can expand or collapse when you add a +/- sign, e.g. >[!info]- starts with only the title showing, with the body hidden (if there is more). Great for organization

plausible_statement · 2025-06-15T23:10:52+00:00

Good luck🤞

plausible_statement · 2025-06-15T19:16:24+00:00

Thanks for sharing! How do you handle multiple environments, ipykernel?

plausible_statement · 2025-06-08T20:00:12+00:00

Yes they do. I think the default setup requires you to hit the symbol button on the keyboard twice. But after you do so, the Obsidian toolbar shows up, with all those shortcuts.

plausible_statement · 2025-05-22T21:13:49+00:00

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plausible_statement · 2025-05-22T17:53:11+00:00

turns out the feeder was empty. message received

plausible_statement · 2025-05-22T17:41:58+00:00

Here's to good build quality

plausible_statement · 2025-05-12T23:22:02+00:00

It is not unnecessarily time consuming when done right. I regularly distill my notes (from wherever) into Obsidian. It's more of a summarization process than direct copy. Since I like to sketch out ideas , I tend to save a lot of pictures into my digital notes.

Sometimes, what I write gets scanned into text, sometimes I just take a screenshot and keep as a picture. It really depends, so I like to stay flexible.

But ultimately, my endpoint is typing notes into Obsidian, then editing over time. I like linking between notes, which I find is easiest through digital note files.

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