What is a Digital Garden?

Chuck Grimmet has a great explanation of it on his blog and recommends some essays on the concept:

• A collection of thoughts, ideas, highlights, annotations, quotes, summaries, and notes that are richer than a tweet, but lack the timestamped nature of a blog post or published essay.
• Digital gardens are tended to and evolve over time. Sometimes they grow, sometimes they get trimmed back. Though they change, they have the four-dimensional permanence of a river or Theseus’s Ship.
• A digital garden embodies the nature of working in public and learning out loud: Sharing your current understanding and allowing others to learn from it.
• Like entangled roots and interwoven vines, the individual plants of digital gardens form a latticework of bi-directionally linked content that supports and encourages bridging and pollination to further understanding.

Digital Gardens that have inspired me

• Hermitage
• jzhao.xyz
• reddy2go's Digital Garden
• River Kenna's Digital Garden

How can I make one?

There’s lots of ways to make a digital garden, you could literally make one yourself with some rudimentary HTML and CSS.

The method I’ve used is a plugin that lets you publish notes from your Obsidian vault, making it really easy to start a garden simply by sharing your notes – plus, hosting is free. You can find the plugin with tutorials and examples here.