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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 an Agora proper (e.g. https://anagora.org/), you should see each page rendered in context and with navigation aids. If you are reading this garden in its raw source (i.e. as a git repository), consider visiting https://anagora.org/@flancian to browse it with working wikilinks and other amenities ;)
A short introduction to the Agora
The Agora has two basic building blocks: nodes and links.
An Agora node is a collection of files related to what the node is about, as described by its title. In this garden most nodes describe people, things, ideas, and other concepts. The file you are reading is in node index because it is called 'index.md'.
An Agora link is any concept in double square brackets that is found in an Agora node.
Agora Journals are just nodes whose titles look like dates, like e.g. those matching ISO 8601 or RFC 3339 dates like 2025-02-04.
A short introduction to this garden
The following might be interesting nodes to start browsing this garden, and with it 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 Agora aims to be a Free Knowledge Commons for the benefit of its users and all sentient beings in general. A lot of my writing has to do with the Commons in one way or another, so this is a good place to start.
Beyond checking the resources proper, which are mostly but not exclusively text notes in Markdown format, remember to check for links in and out of each node.
How to contribute to an Agora
See the burger menu on https://anagora.org for succint instructions.
The first step to join an Agora is to start taking notes and maintaining a digital garden like this one if you haven't. For this you need an editor; See [[Agora editor] for alternatives. I currently recommend:
- Bull[ (MIT license) <- start here by default as of the time of writing (2025).
- Silver Bullet (MIT license).
- Logseq (AGPL).
- Obsidian (closed source).
Then sign up for a git host, 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.
You can also contribute straight from the Fediverse or Bluesky by following an account and writing posts in a particular format; again, see the burger menu on https://anagora.org for more.
For anything else
Please reach out if you want to try note taking or are interested in any of these topics and need help, regardless of whether you would like to contribute your notes to the Agora.