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Gardening with Notion

People who are curious about digital gardening but don’t have a background in programming or web development.

Up until recently, the idea of Digital Gardening was unknown outside the world of web development. If you’re new to the idea of digital gardening I suggest you read my essay on the history and ethos of it first. All of the early gardeners were web developers to some degree – we all knew our way around a GitHub repo, could paste commands into the terminal, and hack things together enough to get an experimental website up and running.

Notion’s Downsides – SEO, Speed, and Domain Names

Because the movement began with a technical crowd, all the initial tools assumed a certain level of knowledge around HTML/CSS, JavaScript, DNS redirects, and static site generators.

My own collection of digital gardening tools on GitHub will point you towards various frameworks and plugins designed for gardening… but most of the solutions require a reasonably high level of technical literacy.

Solutions: Notion-as-a-Website Services

I kept receiving messages from folks who desperately wanted to get in on the gardening action, but described themselves as “non-technical.” I want to acknowledge calling anyone non-technical is controversial, since it suggests some people are inherently unable to code or wade through complex digital tools. I obviously don’t believe that’s the case, but want to recognise some folks feel less comfortable programming and troubleshooting digital systems than o

Thankfully, that’s starting to change. Over the last year, a number of tools have popped up that make it much easier to plant a digital garden without touching code. As the idea of digital gardening spreads , these accessible services will become critical. The gardening gates are finally opening so more folks can cultivate their own corner of the web.

Gardening with Obsidian

Notion is one of the easiest and quickest ways to start building a digital garden when you’re not code-savvy.

Notion claims it’s a note-taking app for teams – a shared space for documentation and planning. Which it is. However, it’s also secretly one of the best tools for building no-code websites.

Gardening with Roam

Think of Notion as Google Docs on steroids. It allows you to create pages of text using plain markdown. You can then style that text, create multi-column layouts, add images, embed links, and build spreadsheets in the middle of a document. You can also link these pages together, which begins to make Notion look strangely like a simple website builder. 🤔

I won’t go into the details of how to use Notion here. If you’re new to Notion I recommend you watch this intro video (8 mins), play around in the app for a bit, watch their advanced tutorial (13 mins), then watch How to Publish Notion Pages to the web. This should give you the 80/20 on how Notion works.

What Gardens are Not

The two killer features that make digital gardening possible in Notion are backlinks and share to web.

Backlinks are a fairly new feature in Notion. They make it possible to create Bi-Directional Links between pages, meaning each page shows which other pages are linked to it. This allows you to build up deeply interlinked content – one of the hallmarks of a digital garden. People browsing your garden can jump between related pages anywhere on the site, rather than only being able to navigate posts in chronological order.

值得单独记下的观察

• Slow Speeds – Notion isn’t optimised for speed. It can be very slow to load on mobile devices. If you have a lot of images on your Notion garden this slows things down even more.

落地时建议先做的 5 件事

1. 先写清这个工具在强化思考还是在替人思考。
2. 默认交互不要只会谄媚：该追问、该给反例、该要求证据。
3. 智能体界面要露出推理步骤，而不是只给一个光滑答案。
4. 知识发布用可生长的笔记，而不是一次性营销长文。
5. 改产品前先画隐喻：用户以为自己在做什么，系统实际在做什么。

和智能体产品怎么接

龙虾PRO做 OpenClaw 落地时，最该从这类笔记里拿走的是「别把聊天框当唯一界面」。数字员工要能追问、能验证、能把过程摊开，而不是只负责说好话。

本文侧重智能体生命周期与技能边界。若你要动手验证，优先用 Playground 做小任务压测；权限与托管再单独规划，避免「先装一堆再治理」。 相关：Playground · 创建智能体 · 学习中心