options for publishing digital garden

• Jekyll (purely) Based

  • Jekyll Garden by Jekyll-Garden

    • Jekyll-Garden/jekyll-garden.github.io
      • sample site: Jekyll Garden - Jekyll Garden (jekyll-garden.github.io)

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    • Personal Notes

      • I prefer this as I’m more comfortable with Jekyll and few standalone javascripts – my personal website is also using a Jekyll theme.
      • But what’s also good is that it is a self-contain digital garden platform using purely Jekyll, depending heavily on Liquid templating – so the source and deployment are simply using github.io
      • I have confidence that I can do tags page similar to how most Jekyll blogging themes – just need to figure out how to move the hashtag in notes into YAML for the use in tags page.

• Jekyll with Netlify

  • Obsidian Digital Garden by oleeskild

    • oleeskild/obsidian-digital-garden (github.com)
      • oleeskild/digitalgarden (github.com)
      • sample site: Set up your own digital garden (ole.dev)

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      • It requires Obsidian community plugin to deploy to Netlify as it make certain changes to YAML before pushing it to your github repo hosting the source files
        • definitely can manually add that, but since this template lack quite a number of key features to me, not worth it to pursue – i’ll just keep in view in case things changes

  • Digital Garden Jekyll by maximevaillancourt

    • maximevaillancourt/digital-garden-jekyll-template
      • sample site: My digital garden (digital-garden-jekyll-template.netlify.app)

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      • require Jekyll and Netlify (to deploy)

  • Simply Jekyll by raghudotcc

    • raghudotcc/simply-jekyll
      • sample site: Simply Jekyll (simply-jekyll.netlify.app)

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      • require Jekyll and Netlify
      • source for Jekyll Garden above (all the hard work of converting wiki-links are done by this theme)

• Hugo Based

  • Quartz by jackyzha0

    • jackyzha0/quartz
      • sample site: Quartz 3.2 (jzhao.xyz)

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      • It requires Hugo and uses Github Action to call hugo scripts to convert markdown to html (repo on the links below)
        • jackyzha0/hugo-obsidian: simple GitHub action to parse Markdown Links into a .json file for Hugo – but the repo already has it all set up
        • alternatively, Netlify offer Hugo converters as part of the deployment options
      • This setup seems almost perfect to me except that how it is configured will require relative path as part of the wiki-links. Not ideal for me as I’m using “shortest path” option in Obsidian
        • I’ve never done Hugo scripting before, so at the moment will depend on feature request to the dev
      • additional note
        • Publishing your Obsidian Vault Online with Quartz (brandonkboswell.com)

• Gatsby Based

  • Gatsby Garden by binnyva

    • binnyva/gatsby-garden
      • example site – Digital Zen Garden : Home (binnyva.com)

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      • I really really love this implementation of digital garden as it has all the key features I cherish and implemented them quite well
        • it has search prominent at the nav bar (but somehow totally hidden in mobile view – possibly can change that with css)
        • page preview that actually loads entire page (not just like first 150 chars) and a full html page with links clickable in the preview itself
        • it has local graph that works okay on mobile
      • But I won’t be using this anytime soon because of some (not many) quirkiness of gatsbyjs and the need to deploy using Netlify
        • I’m now very comfortable with Jekyll and Github.io that I don’t feel like investing more time learning new language/templating just to for hosting my notes – I would rather spend that time learning Python for my big data analysis

References

• How to set up your own digital garden - Ness Labs
  • article on options to publish your digital garden – mentioned most of the platforms above
• What are digital gardens? – Chuck Grimmett (cagrimmett.com)
• jeffreytse/jekyll-spaceship: 🚀 A Jekyll plugin to provide powerful supports for table, mathjax, plantuml, mermaid, emoji, video, audio, youtube, vimeo, dailymotion, soundcloud, spotify, etc. (github.com)

• [Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet

  MIT Technology Review](https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/03/1007716/digital-gardens-let-you-cultivate-your-own-little-bit-of-the-internet/)

• What are digital gardens? – Chuck Grimmett (cagrimmett.com)

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