## How I arrived at creating a digital garden I keep a personal knowledge base. It started in my task manager years ago and grew to a size where it is hard to maintain in that kind of tool. While looking for alternatives and researching on personal wikis, I stumbled across the concept of a [digital garden](https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/03/1007716/digital-gardens-let-you-cultivate-your-own-little-bit-of-the-internet/) and decided to give it a try. There are several aspects that I like about it, especially growing the content while it is already published. ## How I do it I decided to use Obsidian for two reasons: - The [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/) application is awesome. It borrows concepts of [Roam](https://roamresearch.com/), is compatible with [Foam](https://foambubble.github.io/), does not tie my information to a proprietary format and works/syncs beautifully on all my devices - [Obsidian Publish](https://obsidian.md/publish) provides a way to quickly publish the stuff I want. It keeps me from procrastinating on configuring something from the ground up. If I figure I want to do that in the future, it will allow me to do so. All the information I keep in Obsidian is just Markdown, so Gatsby, Docusaurus or Mkdocs would work with it nicely ## How I am organizing information in here - Matured information lives in dedicated folders - All the other stuff goes to the "+Garden" folder. That is information which is either new or in the migration process - I do not like to organize information in folders. Instead, I would like to tag all pages and aggregate overviews out of that. Unfortunately, while Obsidian or the third party [Dataview plugin](https://blacksmithgu.github.io/obsidian-dataview/docs/intro) are able to achieve that, Obsidian Publish does not support it - There is a hint in the Obsidian docs on that [the `query` functionality does not work with Obsidian Publish](https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Search#Embed+search+results) - [Dataview plugin feature request on GitHub](https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview/issues/40)