Standard Garden

Standard Garden

The modern web is noisy, chaotic, and sterile. We are constantly bombarded by feeds, notifications, and generic interfaces that treat writing as fleeting content rather than knowledge.

standard.garden is an antidote to this noise. It is a minimalist, poetic publishing platform designed as a quiet digital ecosystem. By focusing on timeless typography, organic color palettes, and natural connections between ideas, it provides a sanctuary where your thoughts can take root and grow at their own pace.

This plugin is your local greenhouse. It transforms your Obsidian vault into an artisan's toolkit that shares the exact same visual DNA and philosophy as the publishing platform, allowing you to sculpt your writing environment and tend to your thoughts before sharing them with the world.

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🪚 The Atelier Interface

Standard Garden bridges your local Obsidian vault with our curated design system. The right sidebar panel provides an artisan's greenhouse organized into 4 collapsible sections:

• 1. Garden (Publishing Engine): Instant note lifecycle status (Local Draft, Public, Unlisted, Private), prominent 1-click Publish / Sync, live note URL copy, and browser preview.
• 2. Roots (Privacy & Lifecycles): Granular visibility controls (Public, Unlisted, Private), Compost expiration timers for ephemeral drafts, and vault-wide default preferences.
• 3. Mycelium (Network & AI): Interconnected cross-vault backlinks, semantic echoes, and direct consultation with 🦉 Hyphe (AI Thinker).
• 4. Design (Aesthetic Atelier): Curated classical temperaments (Humanist, Construct, Blueprint, Chronicle, Treatise, Exhibit...) with live display mirroring in Obsidian—what you see in your editor is exactly what readers see online.

🎨 Live Visual Mirroring: Obsidian as Your Visual Canvas

Off by default, so enabling the plugin never changes how your notes look. Turn it on in Settings → Standard Garden → Appearance → Standard Design System.

Standard Garden eliminates the gap between local note-taking and web publication:

• Typographic Mirroring: Whenever you change the temperament in frontmatter (theme: humanist, theme: blueprint, theme: editorial, theme: academic, theme: international, theme: gallery...) or pick a theme in the Design panel, Obsidian dynamically adopts the authentic fonts (EB Garamond, Söhne, Newsreader, Instrument Sans, MonoLisa) and typographic hierarchy.
• Architectural WYSIWYG: What you compose locally in Obsidian is rendered with the exact same margins, line heights, and atmospheric grace as on standard.garden.

🔒 Privacy & Double Guardrail

Obsidian is a local-first application, and Standard Garden treats your Markdown files as sacred soil.

• By Default: The plugin operates entirely locally. No data leaves your machine.
• Strict Double Guardrail: For a note to be published, both publish: true AND visibility: public (or unlisted) are required. Personal journals, work notes, and drafts in your excluded folders will never leave your machine.
• Ask Hyphe (Cloud Assistant): Hyphe operates on standard.garden and only searches notes that you have explicitly published to your garden (publish: true). It has zero access to your unpublished local vault notes or offline drafts.

📦 Installation

From the Obsidian Community Plugins

1. Open Obsidian Settings → Community plugins.
2. Search for Standard Garden.
3. Click Install, then Enable.

👉 Or jump straight into Obsidian: Install Standard Garden

With BRAT (to follow releases as they come out)

1. Install the BRAT plugin from Obsidian's Community Plugins.
2. Open BRAT's settings, choose Add beta plugin, and enter ZeFish/obsidian-standard-garden.

Manual installation

1. Download the latest release (main.js, manifest.json, styles.css) from the Releases page.
2. Place them inside your vault at .obsidian/plugins/standard-garden/.
3. Reload Obsidian and enable the plugin in Settings → Community plugins.

Then

Open the Garden panel (the four-square Garden mark in the left ribbon), press Connect to Garden, sign in in your browser, and you are back in Obsidian, connected.

📖 Usage & Frontmatter

Editor suggestions (type :: in a note to get suggestions for cards, columns, callouts and galleries) are also off by default. Turn them on in Settings → Standard Garden → Appearance → Editor suggestions.

Standard Note Frontmatter

Control publishing and visibility directly from note frontmatter or the Garden panel:

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theme: humanist
publish: true
visibility: public # public | unlisted | private
permalink: my-note-slug
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Garden Profile Note (permalink: /)

The root note of your garden (permalink: "/") acts as your garden homepage and defines garden-wide settings:

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permalink: /
garden-domain: notes.example.com
garden-brand: https://example.com/logo.svg   # or false to hide logo/brand
garden-favicon: https://example.com/icon.png
garden-avatar: https://example.com/avatar.png
garden-display-name: Francis
garden-launcher: true                # command palette for visitors
garden-mycelium: true                # participate in the semantic network
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⌨️ Obsidian commands (Command palette)

Every garden action is in the command palette (Cmd + P / Ctrl + P):

🏗️ Development

Garden relies on the @stnd/styles and @stnd/themes packages.

Important: Always build the plugin before testing or deploying. Use pnpm (preferred) to ensure workspace-linked packages are resolved correctly.

To build and deploy the plugin locally:

pnpm install       # install workspace deps
pnpm build         # bundle and deploy to your local Obsidian vault

The build script bundles JS/CSS into dist/ and (when possible) deploys the plugin into the configured vault path (see build.js).

💬 Questions & Support

Have a question, feedback, or need help cultivating your garden?

• Email: [email protected]
• Web: standard.garden · Gardener's Guide
• Issues & Discussions: GitHub Issues

License

MIT