Digital Obsidian Garden

This is the template to be used together with the Digital Garden Obsidian Plugin. See the README in the plugin repo for information on how to set it up.

This site builds with Eleventy and deploys through Netlify. The production build and redirects are configured in netlify.toml.

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Docs

Docs are available at docs.forestry.md

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Plugins

The garden is extensible through plugins: directories under src/plugins/ that add markup to layout slots, site-wide styles and scripts, and build-time Eleventy/markdown-it hooks. Core features like search (dg-search), link previews (dg-link-preview), timestamps (dg-timestamps), and math (dg-math) are themselves plugins built on this API — dg-link-preview is the smallest one to read first.

• Docs (installing plugins, writing your own): docs.forestry.md

• Reference code: the first-party plugins under src/plugins/

• Building plugins with an AI agent: this repo ships a garden-plugin-author skill in the open Agent Skills format, teaching agents how to create, test, and publish garden plugins. Install it into any harness (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, …) with:

  npx skills add oleeskild/digitalgarden
  

To try a third-party plugin manually, drop its directory into src/plugins/ — a valid garden-plugin.json is all it takes. Disable any plugin via src/plugins/plugins.json ({"plugins": {"dg-search": {"enabled": false}}}). Only install plugins from authors you trust: plugin code runs in your site build and in your visitors' browsers.

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CSS Variables

The digital garden is fully customizable through CSS variables. Override these in src/site/styles/custom-style.scss to customize your garden's appearance.

How to Customize

Add your overrides to custom-style.scss:

body {
    --dg-content-max-width: 800px;
    --dg-content-font-size: 16px;
    --dg-sidebar-max-width: 400px;
}

Responsive Layout Notes

• Content will never overlap the filetree, regardless of --dg-content-max-width value
• The right sidebar (TOC/graph/backlinks) automatically hides when there isn't enough viewport space
• To make the sidebar appear at smaller viewports, reduce --dg-sidebar-max-width

Available Variables

Color Variables

You can override the base Obsidian theme color variables directly:

Variable	Description
--text-normal	Normal text color
--text-muted	Muted/secondary text
--text-faint	Faint text
--text-accent	Accent color
--text-accent-hover	Accent hover color
--link-color	Link color
--link-color-hover	Link color hover
--link-unresolved-color	Link color unresolved
--link-unresolved-opacity	Link color unresolved opacity
--background-primary	Primary background
--background-primary-alt	Alt primary background
--background-secondary	Secondary background
--background-secondary-alt	Alt secondary background
--interactive-normal	Interactive element color
--interactive-hover	Interactive hover color
--interactive-accent	Interactive accent
--interactive-accent-hover	Interactive accent hover

Layout Variables

Variable	Default	Description
--dg-content-max-width	700px	Maximum width of content area
--dg-content-margin-top	90px	Top margin for content
--dg-content-margin-top-mobile	75px	Top margin on mobile
--dg-content-font-size	18px	Base font size for content
--dg-content-line-height	1.5	Line height for content

Sidebar (Right) Variables

Variable	Default	Description
--dg-sidebar-top	75px	Sidebar top offset
--dg-sidebar-gap	80px	Gap between content and sidebar
--dg-sidebar-min-width	25px	Minimum sidebar width
--dg-sidebar-max-width	350px	Maximum sidebar width
--dg-sidebar-container-padding	20px	Sidebar container padding
--dg-sidebar-container-height	87%	Sidebar container height

Graph Variables

Variable	Default	Description
--dg-graph-width	250px	Local graph width
--dg-graph-height	250px	Local graph height
--dg-graph-border-radius	10px	Graph border radius
--dg-graph-margin-bottom	20px	Graph bottom margin
--dg-graph-fullscreen-width	90vw	Expanded/global graph width
--dg-graph-fullscreen-height	85vh	Expanded/global graph height
--dg-graph-node-color	var(--text-accent)	Active/current node color
--dg-graph-node-color-muted	var(--text-faint)	Neighbor node color
--dg-graph-label-color	var(--text-normal)	Node label text color
--dg-graph-bg	var(--background-primary)	Graph background color
--dg-graph-border-color	var(--background-secondary)	Graph border color

Filetree (Left Sidebar) Variables

Variable	Default	Description
--dg-filetree-width	250px	Filetree sidebar width
--dg-filetree-min-width	250px	Minimum filetree width
--dg-filetree-padding	10px 20px	Filetree padding
--dg-filetree-gap	80px	Gap from content
--dg-filetree-title-size	32px	Filetree title font size

TOC (Table of Contents) Variables

Variable	Default	Description
--dg-toc-padding	5px	TOC container padding
--dg-toc-font-size	0.9rem	TOC font size
--dg-toc-max-height	220px	TOC max height
--dg-toc-title-size	1.2rem	TOC title font size
--dg-toc-item-padding	2px 0 2px 8px	TOC item padding
--dg-toc-indent	1em	TOC nested list indent

Backlinks Variables

Variable	Default	Description
--dg-backlinks-margin-top	10px	Backlinks section top margin
--dg-backlinks-max-height	250px	Backlinks list max height
--dg-backlinks-title-size	0.9rem	Backlinks title font size
--dg-backlinks-card-size	0.85rem	Backlink card font size
--dg-backlinks-card-padding	6px 0	Backlink card padding
--dg-backlinks-icon-size	14px	Backlink icon size

Search Variables

Variable	Default	Description
--dg-search-box-width	900px	Search box width
--dg-search-box-max-width	80%	Search box max width
--dg-search-box-radius	15px	Search box border radius
--dg-search-box-padding	10px	Search box padding
--dg-search-input-size	2rem	Search input font size
--dg-search-input-padding	10px	Search input padding
--dg-search-input-radius	5px	Search input border radius
--dg-search-results-max-height	50vh	Search results max height
--dg-search-result-size	1.2rem	Search result font size
--dg-search-result-radius	10px	Search result border radius
--dg-search-link-size	1.4rem	Search link font size

Search Button Variables

Variable	Default	Description
--dg-search-btn-radius	8px	Search button border radius
--dg-search-btn-height	32px	Search button height
--dg-search-btn-padding	0 10px	Search button padding
--dg-search-btn-gap	8px	Search button icon/text gap
--dg-search-btn-font-size	0.85rem	Search button font size
--dg-search-btn-icon-size	14px	Search button icon size

Navbar Variables

Variable	Default	Description
--dg-navbar-title-size-mobile	18px	Navbar title size on mobile
--dg-navbar-search-margin	20px	Navbar search button margin
--dg-navbar-search-min-width	36px	Navbar search min width
--dg-logo-height	40px	Site logo height on desktop
--dg-logo-height-mobile	32px	Site logo height on mobile
--dg-logo-margin	10px 15px	Site logo margin
--dg-filetree-logo-height	70px	Site logo height in filetree sidebar

Note Link / Filetree Item Variables

Variable	Default	Description
--dg-notelink-padding	4px 8px 4px 12px	Note link padding
--dg-notelink-size	0.85rem	Note link font size
--dg-notelink-border-width	2px	Note link left border width
--dg-notelink-hover-bg	rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.05)	Note link hover background
--dg-folder-margin	4px 0 4px 2px	Folder name margin
--dg-folder-icon-size	14px	Folder icon size
--dg-inner-folder-padding	3px 0 3px 0	Inner folder padding
--dg-inner-folder-margin	12px	Inner folder left margin
--dg-filelist-margin	8px	File list left margin

Graph Controls Variables

Variable	Default	Description
--dg-graph-ctrl-padding	6px 10px	Graph controls padding
--dg-graph-ctrl-radius	6px	Graph controls border radius
--dg-graph-ctrl-margin	10px	Graph controls margin
--dg-graph-ctrl-size	0.7rem	Graph controls font size
--dg-graph-ctrl-icon-size	14px	Graph control icon size
--dg-graph-ctrl-gap	10px	Graph controls gap

Timestamps Variables

Variable	Default	Description
--dg-timestamps-size	0.8em	Timestamps font size
--dg-timestamps-gap	10px	Timestamps gap
--dg-timestamps-margin-top	20px	Timestamps top margin

Misc Component Variables

Variable	Default	Description
--dg-overlay-bg	rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5)	Overlay background color
--dg-mermaid-radius	25px	Mermaid diagram border radius
--dg-mermaid-padding	10px	Mermaid diagram padding
--dg-transclusion-padding	8px	Transclusion container padding
--dg-external-link-icon-size	13px	External link icon size
--dg-external-link-padding	16px	External link right padding