Host your own second brain and digital garden for free.
> “He 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.” — Richard Hamming
> “[One] who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but [they] also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.” — Richard Hamming
Simple second brain and [digital garden](https://jzhao.xyz/posts/digital-gardening).
Host your second brain and [digital garden](https://jzhao.xyz/posts/digital-gardening) for free. Quartz features
1. Extremely fast full-text search by pressing `/`
## Why Quartz?
2. Beautiful, out-of-the-box website creation and deployment
Hosting a public digital garden isn't easy. There are an overwhelming number of tutorials, resources, and guides for tools like [Notion](https://www.notion.so/), [Roam](https://roamresearch.com/), and [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/), yet none of them have super easy to use *free* tools to publish that garden to the world.
3. Display for backlinks of each note
4. A customizable graph view
I've personally found that
5. Endlessly powerful page and theme customization
1. It's nice to access notes from anywhere
2. Having a public digital garden invites open conversations
3. It makes keeping personal notes and knowledge *playful and fun*
> “He 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.” — Richard Hamming
I was really inspired by [Bianca](https://garden.bianca.digital/) and [Joel](https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden)'s digital gardens and wanted to try making my own.
**The goal of Quartz is to make hosting your own public digital garden free and simple.** You don't even need your own website. Quartz does all of that for you and gives your own little corner of the internet.
## Get Started
## Get Started
The entire Quartz documentation is fully hosted using Quartz! To get started, let's visit the main directory.
> 📚 [Setup your own digital garden using Quartz](notes/setup.md)
Not convinced yet? Look at some [community digital gardens](moc/showcase) built with Quartz, or read about [why I made Quartz](notes/philosophy.md) to begin with!
👉 [Directory](moc/directory.md)
## Troubleshooting
- 🚧 [Troubleshooting and FAQ](notes/troubleshooting.md)
- 🐛 [Submit an Issue](https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz/issues)
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!
- 📚 [Setup your own digital garden using Quartz](notes/setup.md)
- 🔗 [Linking with an Obsidian Vault](notes/obsidian.md)
- 🎨 [Customizing and Styling Quartz](notes/config.md)
- 🌍 [Hosting Quartz online!](notes/hosting.md)
Not convinced yet? Look at some [community digital gardens](moc/showcase) built with Quartz!
## Troubleshooting
- 🚧 [Troubleshooting and FAQ](notes/troubleshooting.md)
- 🐛 [Submit an Issue](https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz/issues)
- [Course notes for Information Technology Advanced Theory](https://a2itnotes.github.io/quartz/)
If you want to see your own on here, submit a [Pull Request adding yourself to this file](https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz/blob/hugo/content/moc/showcase.md)!
If you want to see your own on here, submit a [Pull Request adding yourself to this file](https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz/blob/hugo/content/moc/showcase.md)!
> “[One] who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but [they] also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.” — Richard Hamming
## Why Quartz?
Hosting a public digital garden isn't easy. There are an overwhelming number of tutorials, resources, and guides for tools like [Notion](https://www.notion.so/), [Roam](https://roamresearch.com/), and [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/), yet none of them have super easy to use *free* tools to publish that garden to the world.
I've personally found that
1. It's nice to access notes from anywhere
2. Having a public digital garden invites open conversations
3. It makes keeping personal notes and knowledge *playful and fun*
I was really inspired by [Bianca](https://garden.bianca.digital/) and [Joel](https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden)'s digital gardens and wanted to try making my own.
**The goal of Quartz is to make hosting your own public digital garden free and simple.** You don't even need your own website. Quartz does all of that for you and gives your own little corner of the internet.