What does HackerNews think of digital-gardeners?
Resources, links, projects, and ideas for gardeners tending their digital notes on the public interwebs
Also, because you already have a lot of the content, maybe you don't need a blog? what about a "digital garden" ?
What is a digital garden? -> https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history
Tools (easy options included) -> https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners
If you have your content in a note-taking app like obsidian, there is even simple tutorials on how to freely publish it with all those precious "multiple tags per category", all in one go.
https://brianlovin.com/writing/how-my-website-works because of how in-depth he went with hosting his notes, bookmarks, and other projects.
https://wattenberger.com/ for its reactivity/place for her d3.js experiments.
and here is a general collection of dope blog additions: https://brainbaking.com/post/2022/04/cool-things-people-do-w...
My overall advice is unless you're a designer flexing your skills is to focus less on the design and more on the actual writing! The internet is littered with the emaciated husks of nice good looking sites hosting nary an entry beyond "How I Made My New Blog With X"
Here’s a curated list: https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners
Includes resources on how to start your own.
Buster Benson is probably my favourite one https://notes.busterbenson.com/
Is it #digitalgarden?
> I believe the most important question regarding personal knowledge bases is how to make them social.
AFAIK note taking apps often have a feature to share notes, if that counts, e.g., Obsidian (view-only), Roam (view and edit), Notion (view, edit, and comment), and so on. With sharing and comments enabled, you can even use Google Docs as your PKB (some people actually do this), given that you don't need fancy features like bi-directional links.
Just like regular blogs, some gardeners also implement a social protocol called Webmention [1]. It's more like a pingback in WordPress than a collaboration tool though.
> A good shared knowledge base would by contrast also resemble Twitter -- but more organized, more navigable.
I would love to see this implemented in existing apps. The current solutions I know either involve 3rd party plugins (e.g., hypothes.is), or you have to self-hosted it yourself (e.g., cactus.chat, based on Matrix protocol).
Another alternative, which I learned from visiting other gardeners [2], is that you can link the edit button in your note to a GitHub PR. It's not friendly to non-developers who visit your garden, but this is better than nothing IMO.
> In practice the personal knowledge bases I've seen look much more like silos.
5 months ago there is a Show HN about a decentralized knowledge graph called Agora [3]. The cool thing is, everyone is part of one large knowledge graph, which means nodes (notes) from multiple users can be aggregated around [[topic]]. I hope the project is still alive..
ps. I'm sorry if I'm not making any sense.. I only started researching on this topic recently to create my own PKB (I literally published my first note couple days ago [4]).
[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/
[2] https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners
There are some tools being created in this space but a lot of it is still roll-your-own. Github Pages and Jekyll (or even better, Hugo) is a good way to get started, there's plenty of simple tutorials that can get you a site up and running. And in terms of control over your future: everything in the end is just Markdown files that you can pick up and take with you wherever you go :)