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oldwinter/knowledge-garden
我的第二大脑 second brain，我的数字花园 digital garden，用obsidian双链笔记软件写作而成
A real person's Obsidian vault published as a digital garden — you get the actual notes, plugins, CSS snippets, and workflows someone uses daily, not a polished template. It's aimed at Obsidian users who want a working reference for PKM systems (PARA, ACCESS, evergreen notes, spaced repetition) rather than a blank starting point. Content is primarily in Chinese.
The plugin collection is genuinely useful as a reference — 40+ community plugins with their actual `data.json` configs checked in, so you can see real settings, not just a list of names. The CSS snippets folder covers non-obvious UI tweaks (threading indicators, callout styles, canvas candy) that took someone real time to figure out. The Quartz publishing setup is fully wired — the syncer plugin, publish flow, and web output are all in place if you want to replicate the garden-to-website pipeline. Canvas files include actual content (character relationship maps, workflow diagrams) showing how the format holds up for non-trivial use.
This is one person's vault, not a framework — there's no abstraction layer, so forking it means inheriting all their personal notes, daily entries, and opinions baked into the structure. The README and most notes are in Chinese with no translation, which cuts off a large part of the potential audience entirely. Plugin binaries (`main.js`) are committed directly to the repo rather than installed via the Obsidian plugin system, so you're running unverified JS blobs with no clear provenance or update path. The 'template' framing is misleading — `Use this template` gives you someone else's brain dump, and untangling personal content from reusable structure would take significant effort.