My Digital Garden Setup

Why I write

1. Writing is thinking — Structuring thoughts in text forces clarity.
2. Writing is remembering — You reabsorb information faster next time.
3. Learning in the open — Write for yourself three months ago. Don’t wait to be perfect.

A digital garden is a collection of inter-linked notes that grows over time. Unlike a blog (chronological), a garden is networked.

How this site is built

Every page is a plain Markdown file with [[wikilinks]]. The stack:

• Studio — my own writing app at a private URL. It commits Markdown straight to GitHub.
• Astro — builds the site: journal, notes, topic maps, tags, backlinks, graph, search, RSS and sitemap.
• GitHub Pages for hosting, Cloudflare for DNS and CDN.

Flow:

1. Write in Studio (or any Markdown editor) — content/blog/, content/notes/, content/topics/
2. [[link]] to other notes — this builds the graph and the backlinks
3. Publish → a GitHub Action rebuilds and deploys in about a minute

No database. Plain text lasts forever, and git is the backup.

Folder structure

content/
  blog/          # Journal — days, people, books
  notes/         # Evergreen notes for the garden
  topics/        # Topic maps linking related notes
  attachments/   # Images uploaded from Studio

Daily workflow

Capture → Connect → Publish. 15–30 minutes a day.

Related: All notes · Journal · Home