How I Built This

Why digital garden concept?

IndieWeb Principles

• have fun scratching my own itch
• make what I need with human design-first in mind
• document to share with my future self and with others
• own my data

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Visual Design Inspirations

I love looking at scrapbooks and bullet journals. I have these two hobbies along with sketchnoting on my want to learn list for the longest time. Why not scratch that itch by exploring these concepts as design constraints for my website's first iteration? I believe design constraints encourage creativity.

• Olivia Ng's Codepen: especially Bullet Journal/Sketch Style Elements pen
• Sketchy Theme UI Preset by Aleksandra Sikora
• PaperCSS

Tools

• NextJS with MDX
• Hero Patterns
• Space Icons by Agata Kuczminska
• Custom Fonts from Kimberly Geswein

Progress

• added RSS feed for Sketchbook only

Want to do

• add webmentions
• play with more bullet journal type visual designs
  • style checkboxes
• consider using sanity.io to create a eyecandy (photos) section