About this digital garden
Introduction
Back in 2021, I made the decision to stop using Google. I wanted to be in control of my data. Since then, I’ve been using Proton: Mail (with SimpleLogin), Calendar, Drive (recently with Docs), Pass (formerly Bitwarden). And possibly in the near future, Standard Notes.
When I started this website in 2021, I made the notes for this website in markdown format using Obsidian as the editor. At that time I looked at Obsidian Publish as option to share my notes with others, but I found it too expensive. So, I found an alternative to Obsidian Publish: The Jekyll template from Maxime Vaillancourt.
In 2024, I revamped this website. The principle remains the same, that of a digital garden (see below) but I switched from Jekyll to Astro Starlight, a beautiful and modern documentation theme built on top of the Astro framework. And now I write my notes in MDX - markdown with embedded components through JSX - using Visual Studio Code + MDX extension as the editor.
Digital Gardens
I once tried to set up a blog to share my notes. But that didn’t work for me. After some research I found out about digital gardens and it turned out to be a match! It was very recognizable to me on a number of points. Please read this article from MIT Technology Review for more information. I quote:
“Beneath the umbrella term, however, digital gardens don’t follow rules.”
“With blogging, you’re talking to a large audience,” … “With digital gardening, you’re talking to yourself. You focus on what you want to cultivate over time.”
“What they (the notes) have in common is that they can be edited at any time to reflect evolution and change. The idea is similar to editing a Wikipedia entry, though digital gardens are not meant to be the ultimate word on a topic.”
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