GitHub - binyamin/eleventy-garden: :seedling: A starter site for building a mind garden with eleventy

A starter site for building a mind garden, using 11ty (demo)

Note: I'm not building this project for myself, so y'all gotta tell me what you think. Issues are the way to go here.

🌱 Introduction

What is a digital garden?

A digital garden is a website where the primary organization of content emerges from contextual hyperlinks moreso than a chronological method of organization. It's a mix of a notebook and a blog, and often uses the ethos of "working in public."

Why use a mind garden?

Good way of presenting your own personal knowledge and understanding of things, as well as connecting them back and to each other, etc. A digital garden is a fun way to non-linearly represent all the things you care about on the web. Check out these great examples of mind gardens:

• https://maggieappleton.com/
• https://wiki.nikiv.dev/
• https://joelhooks.com/

Why use eleventy-garden?

Eleventy-garden allows you to quickly take advantage of eleventy's static site generation and makes a starter template for hosting your own personal mindgarden website. Everything is free, easy and fun! Read ahead to get started :)

🏠 About

• Double-bracket links (the ones roam uses)
• Displays backlinks
• hovercards for backlinks

Related

• maximevaillancourt/digital-garden-jekyll-template
• mathieudutour/gatsby-digital-garden
• Find more at maggieappleton/digital-gardeners

🚀 Usage

Check out the wiki for more information, including FAQs and wiki guides (coming soon).

Getting started

First Steps

• Generate a repository from this template
• Clone the repository locally (how to clone a git repository)
• Run npm install in a terminal.

Make your changes

• Styling: The css file is in /assets/style.css
• Branding: Add your logo or avatar in /assets/avatar.png
• Content: /_data/site.json contains vital information to make the site your own
  • Drop your notes in the /notes folder
• Testing: To view it locally, open a terminal and type npm start

Publish it

• You can use Netlify, Vercel, or whatever else works.

❤️ Contribute

Feel free to dive in!

Here's what this project needs...

• Feedback! I didn't make this repo is for myself, so y'all gotta tell me what you want.
• Stars on GitHub
• Contributors - check out the contributing guide

Maintainers

@binyamin

📜 License

This project is under the MIT license. Please adhere to the code of conduct.