garden/index.md

This is the index of my digital garden, which serves also as an entry point of sorts to the wider Agora of Flancia.

If you are reading this in the Agora proper, you should see it rendered in context and with a navigation UI. If you are reading this garden directly in its source (e.g. git repository), consider visiting anagora.org or some other Agora this garden is known to be in to render it with resolved wikilinks and amenities ;)

Nodes

In an Agora, a node is a collection of resources having to do with a topic; a thing or an idea or whatever you want the node to mean.

The resources are files found in gardens like this one. This note, for example, belongs to node index because its name is index.md.

The following might be interesting nodes to start browsing this garden and the Agora at large.

• Person: contains links to nodes about people.
• Agora: I write about the Agora often, in the Agora of course :) This node, like all and the Agora proper, is a work in progress -- but it should be a reasonable starting point to understand what the Agora is and what it tries to achieve.
• Commons: the Free Commons is an ideal that the Agora tries to uphold and represent for the benefit of its users and all sentient beings. A lot of my writing has to do with the Commons in one way or another.
• #go: this tag marks URLs as canonical for a given node. The associated Agora action then lets users jump to the URL by visiting e.g. location go/agora.

Beyond checking the resources proper, which are mostly but not exclusively notes, remember to check for links in and out of each node.

Journals

These are nodes whose titles look like dates, like e.g. those matching ISO 8601 or RFC 3339 dates. They are interpreted as journals and aggregated in that Agora location.

How to contribute to this Agora

If you like to take personal notes (recommended)

See Agora editors for alternatives. I (Flancian) currently recommend:

• Silver Bullet (MIT license) <- start here by default as of the time of writing (2024).
• Logseq (AGPL).
• Obsidian (closed source).

Then sign up for a git provider, like https://codeberg.org (or the better known and decent but corporate-run https://github.com), upload your garden to it (this yields the nice side effect of keeping it backed up but under your control!) and send us its location and your desired username. See Agora signup for more.

If you prefer to contribute from social media

You can also contribute straight from the Fediverse once you get an account in a server (e.g. one providing Mastodon to a community, or one you run yourself). I am part of and help run social.coop; it is a good one if you are interested in cooperativism. There's thousands more! See Map of the Fediverse for more.

Once you sign up to the Fediverse, you can follow @agora@botsin.space and it will watch your posts for wikilinks. You can configure the bot to include the full text of your post or only links; and to also include, and respond to, post with #hashtags.

If you just want to write down something quickly and don't care about attribution

Consider just leaving an anonymous note anywhere around the Agora in a stoa, which is a public space meant for collaboration (think wiki or shared editor) available in each node.

For more

Please reach out if you want to try note taking or are interested in the Fediverse and need help, regardless of whether you would like to contribute your notes to the Agora.

Please see how to edit this Agora if you're interested in contributing or how to run an Agora for instructions for running your own.

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