tl;dr: a personal website in the form of interconnected information, thoughts & ideas.

digital gardens

Obsidian (link ↗) is gaining popularity alongside with many other PKM (personal knowledge management) apps that allow networked thought and high & easy linking between ideas / notes.

Alongside with this trend, what’s many Digital Gardens (what? ↗) emerge. Evolved from hypertext gardens, and just like flower gardens, they are personal spaces on the internet that everyone can discover, explore, enjoy.
Like websites and blogs, they reflect a personality. Unlike websites, they rely on information rather than design; and unlike blogs, they rely on connection between thoughts/ideas rather than a timeline.

graph

I love how the name “digital garden” sounds, yet, it’s not exactly what I want.
This website, I like to call it “graph”, allows me to study, experiment on & better understand the representation & interconnection of information. Unlike usual digital gardens, I preferred to abandon any hierarchical folder structure and put the accent on the interactive graph that shows connections between pages/ideas. If zoomed out, it starts to look more like a network of neurons, representing how something bigger and complete is built from small pieces of [something].

navigation

• you navigate from link to link, from idea to idea
• or via the interactive graph, red nodes are visited
• there are also search and tags (hollow circles on the graph)

(tech)

There are different solutions for hosting a digital garden on the web, starting by the Obsidian Publish integrated into Obsidian.
Quartz ↗ is an amazing free open-source alternative, with imho even better functionality & design than the Obsidian solution. I modified it a bit, especially visually, to put a higher accent on the graph and better fit the visual I had in mind, and the result is this website.