Obsidian - Digital Gardening

Tools Overview

Obsidian Digital Garden Plugin (Eleventy)

https://github.com/oleeskild/obsidian-digital-garden

Creator: Ole Eskild Steensen (oleeskild)
Documentation: https://dg-docs.ole.dev/
Template: https://github.com/oleeskild/digitalgarden
Comparison to other solutions: https://dg-docs.ole.dev/advanced/comparison-to-other-solutions/

Publishing my notes with the Obsidian Digital Garden Plugin

Examples

• https://notes.ole.dev/
• https://ajy.co/ (How this site is built)
• https://razvan-andrei-surdu.eu/
• https://hermitage.utsob.me/
• https://notes.thatother.dev/
• https://www.alberer.contact/

More:

• https://github.com/oleeskild/obsidian-digital-garden/issues/55

Docs

Add missing metadata:

• using Templater to add the needed metadata to new files
• dg-publish.sh: https://gist.github.com/meleu/f9667e76a2744d46686702edeb3cc77c
• MetaEdit for Obsidian: https://github.com/chhoumann/MetaEdit

Self-Hosting

https://github.com/oleeskild/obsidian-digital-garden/discussions/160

Quartz (uses Hugo)

https://quartz.jzhao.xyz/
https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz

Tutorials:

• Publishing your Obsidian Vault Online with Quartz (Brandon Boswell)
• Publish your Obsidian Vault Online for Free with Quartz - YouTube (Brandon Boswell)
• Hosting with Docker

GatsbyJS theme "Gatsby Garden" by Binny V A

https://www.gatsbyjs.com/plugins/gatsby-garden
https://github.com/binnyva/gatsby-garden

Examples:

• https://notes.binnyva.com/

GatbyJS theme "gatsby-starter-digital-garden" by Mathieu Dutour

https://github.com/mathieudutour/gatsby-digital-garden

Examples:

• https://mathieudutour.github.io/gatsby-digital-garden/

Jekyll Template by Maxime Vaillancourt

Template: https://github.com/maximevaillancourt/digital-garden-jekyll-template
Demo: https://digital-garden-jekyll-template.netlify.app/

Tutorials:

• Setting up your own digital garden with Jekyll — Maxime Vaillancourt
• Obsidian Jekyll workflow — The Refined Mind
• Free Obsidian Publish Alternative!?! How does it compare? - YouTube

Jekyll Template: Jekyll Garden

Website: https://jekyll-garden.github.io/
Demo: https://jekyll-garden.github.io/notes
How-to: https://jekyll-garden.github.io/post/how-to
Source code: https://github.com/Jekyll-Garden/jekyll-garden.github.io

Examples:

• https://hiran.in/notes

Flowershow

https://flowershow.app/

Flowershow is an open-source tool for easily converting your markdown files into an elegant website. It's built on a standard, modern web stack – React, Next.js, and Tailwind and shipped with a basic default theme to get you started with just a few clicks.

Markbase

https://www.markbase.xyz/

• online service, freemium price model
• custom domain, search and custom CSS costs 5 $ per month

MindStone

https://mindstone.tuancao.me/
https://github.com/TuanManhCao/digital-garden

Custom workflow with Hugo & Husky

https://jacobian.org/til/hugo-obsidian/

Consideration

SSG Templates

Disadvantages:

• You may want to separate it from your main vault, because of all the template stuff you need. If so, you have to sync the files from your vault to the other repo that contains the template.