On Writefreely
This digital garden is – at least for now – created using a self-hosted instance of writefreely.
- I like it because it's minimalist
- I like it because it's FOSS
- I like it because you write using markdown
- I like it because it's federated
What I don't know is whether or not it's too simple. I want to eventually be able to group my notes together, so that there is at least some sort of non-bloglike structure to the garden. I also tend to create large interconnected bodies of writing, and I am not sure it's going to be easy to navigate them using the standard theme.
Here are some possible avenues to I am planning to look into:
- Maybe I can do some simple css-tweaks? I'll check out some of the write.as themes and the css.horse tool
- Maybe tags will work as an acceptable navigation? Right now they don't work for me at all
- Maybe I can set up several blogs – divided by subject – but with a single landing page
Since I self-host I have a little more options than most people, I guess. I could also look into other software, but writefreely is just so nice to use as a writer that I am reluctant to use something more complicated.