A digital garden is a personal corner of the web that grows a little at a time. Instead of finished posts in date order, it holds notes, lists, and half-formed ideas that you come back to and tend. Maggie Appleton's history of the idea is the best place to start.
Most gardens have a few things in common: a bookshelf, notes on what the owner read or watched, quotes they kept, and links they liked. Most of them are also built by hand, with a static site generator, a Notion workspace, or Obsidian Publish. If you'd rather tend the garden than build the fence, Logfolio covers the part about what you read, watch, and play.
What Logfolio can hold
- Shelves. Books, films, TV, games, and albums are ready from the start, each with a status, a rating, and a date. Your shelves are public at
logfolio.co/yourname. - Quotes. Lines worth keeping, with who said them and where. With Pro, your Kindle highlights can come over as quotes.
- Bookmarks. Articles and pages you saved, with To read and Read.
- Notes. Write as much or as little as you like. Notes are private by default. With Pro, you can publish any note to your page.
- Anything else. Make your own types for places, recipes, tools, or side projects, with the fields you choose.
Quotes, bookmarks, published notes, and your own types are part of Pro.
Let it grow slowly
A garden is never finished, and a log suits that. You don't have to start with a full shelf:
- Bring what you already have. Import from Goodreads, Letterboxd, StoryGraph, or IMDb, or sync Steam. Years of history land in minutes.
- Add as you go. Log a book when you finish it. Save a quote when it stops you. It takes a few seconds.
- Write when there's something to say. A note can be one line. Publish it when it's ready, or never.
Arrange it your way
With Pro, open Settings, then Profile sections, and put your sections in the order you want, or switch off the ones you'd rather not show. Mark up to five entries in each type as featured and they lead that shelf.
What it isn't
Logfolio is not a full garden tool, and it's worth being clear about that:
- It lives on logfolio.co, not your own domain. If owning your corner of the web matters most to you, build your own site. You can still use Logfolio to keep your shelves, and export everything any time, on any plan.
- Notes don't link to each other yet. There are no backlinks or wiki links. If your garden is mostly connected ideas, Obsidian or a static site will suit you better.
- There's no theme to edit. Every page uses the same clean layout.
Already have a garden?
Then keep it. Plenty of gardens link out to a bookshelf or a film log kept somewhere else. Logfolio can be that place: your site holds your writing, and your page here holds what you read, watch, and play.
Start free: 20 entries each in books, films, TV, games, and albums.