This garden lives in three places at once.
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Obsidian — Where everything starts. Obsidian is a local-first, markdown-based note-taking app that stores all your files as plain text on your own device. No cloud lock-in, no subscriptions needed to use the core app. Notes link to each other through internal hyperlinks, which is exactly the kind of non-linear, rhizomatic structure a digital garden needs. It’s my thinking environment (messy, interconnected, and entirely mine)
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Quartz — The bridge between private notes and public garden. Quartz is a free, open-source static site generator built specifically for publishing digital gardens from Obsidian vaults. It takes markdown files and turns them into a fully functional website, with graph view, backlinks, full-text search, and internal hyperlinks preserved. This site runs on Quartz 4.
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GitHub — Where the garden is stored and deployed. The vault is version-controlled and hosted on GitHub, which also handles publishing via GitHub Pages. Every time I push a change, the site updates automatically. It’s free, transparent, and keeps a full history of how the garden has grown over time.
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