> “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
**The goal of Quartz is to make hosting your own public digital garden free and simple.**
**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
The entire Quartz documentation is fully hosted using Quartz! You can navigate it using the interactive Graph view below.
No! Setting up Quartz means you set up a site too :)
### How come my notes aren't being rendered?
You probably forgot to include front matter in your Markdown files. You can either setup [Obsidian](notes/obsidian) to do this for you or you need to manually define it. More details in [the 'how to edit' guide](notes/editing.md).