The Digital Garden
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The Indieweb Kochi meet up was the trigger for this. [people/Hrishikesh Bhaskaran] a.k.a [people/Stultus] showed me his gigital garden at Stultus.in and I decided why not take that and then apply it across the site. Not just notes, build a connecting web of everything. Again [people/Hiran Venugopalan] warned me against this being noise, but I don’t listen much when i am in the groove. Grove? Since Garden and all? The garden is the part of the site for notes that grow over time, at /garden/.
How a note gets there:
- I write it in Obsidian.
- Syncthing copies the vault to the NAS (from the laptop and the phone).
- garden-sync checks the vault every minute and publishes marked notes into Ghost as posts tagged #garden.
Only notes with publish: true ever leave the vault. Unpublishing turns a note into a draft, never a deletion, so mistakes are recoverable.
My posts are part of the garden too. garden-sync only reads them; it never changes a post. Each shows as a paper card with a TL;DR: my custom excerpt if I wrote one, otherwise the post’s strongest line.
Garden notes stay out of the homepage feed. The garden is a place to wander, not a stream.
Why it’s built this way: Why the garden lives inside Ghost. How notes connect: Vines, links and relations. Part of Dungeon.