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Simple second brain and digital garden.
Hosting a public digital garden isn’t easy. There are an overwhelming number of tutorials, resources, and guides for tools like +Notion +, +Roam +, and +Obsidian +, yet none of them have super easy to use free tools to publish that garden to the world.
I’ve personally found that
βHe who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.β β Richard Hamming
The goal of Quartz is to make hosting your own public digital garden free and simple.
The entire Quartz documentation is fully hosted using Quartz! You can navigate it using the interactive Graph view below.
If you’d prefer more traditional navigation, you can also find all relevant pages through the main directory.
π +Directory
Welcome to Quartz! Whether you’re setting up a website and project for the first time or a seasoned digital gardener, I hope that you’ll find something useful about this project.
Let’s get to business and get you started!
Quartz runs on top of +Hugo +so all notes are written in +Markdown +.
All content in your garden can found in the /content folder. To make edits, you can open any of the files and make changes directly and save it. You can organize content into any folder you’d like.
To create a link, just create a normal link using Markdown pointing to the document in question. Please note that all links should be relative to the root /content path.
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I strongly recommend using +Obsidian +as a way to edit and grow your digital garden. It comes with a really nice editor and graphical interface to preview all of my local files.
π +How to link your Obsidian Vault
Of course, all the files are in Markdown so you could just use your favourite text editor of choice, I’m not going to stop you!
This step is purely optional and mostly for those who want to see the published version of their digital garden locally before opening it up to the internet. For those who like to live life more on the edge, viewing the garden through Obsidian gets you pretty close to the real thing.
Hugo is the static site generator that powers Quartz. If you’d like to preview your site locally, +install Hugo +.
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hugo-obsidianThis step is doubly optional and only applies to those who want to see their Interactive Graph and backlinks locally while previewing changes on the site.
Ensure you have Go (>= 1.16) installed.
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Afterwards, start the Hugo server as shown above and your local backlinks and interactive graph should be populated!
Now that you know the basics of managing your digital garden using Quartz, you can publish it to the internet!
π +Hosting Quartz online!
Having problems? Checkout our +FAQ and Troubleshooting guide +.
Change baseURL in /config.toml
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Having problems? Checkout our +FAQ and Troubleshooting guide +.
Obsidian is the preferred way to use Quartz. You can either create a new Obsidian Vault or link one that your already have.
If you don’t have an existing Vault, download

Setting up Quartz requires a basic understanding of git. If you are unfamiliar,
+this resource
+is a great place to start!
A fork is a copy of a repository. Forking a repository allows you to freely experiment with changes without affecting the original project.
Navigate to the GitHub repository for the Quartz project:
π +Quartz Repository
Then, Fork the repository into your own GitHub account. If you don’t have an account, you can make on for free +here +. More details about forking a repo can be found on +GitHub’s documentation +.
After you’ve made a fork of the repository, you need to download the files locally onto your machine. Ensure you have git, then type the following command replacing YOUR-USERNAME with your GitHub username.
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Great! Now you have everything you need to start editing and growing your digital garden. If you’re ready to start writing content already, check out the recommended flow for editing notes in Quartz.
βοΈ +Editing Notes in Quartz
Having problems? Checkout our +FAQ and Troubleshooting guide +.