Forestry.md
Your thoughts
deserve a
place on the
web.
Publish your Obsidian notes to your own corner of the internet. No feeds, no algorithms deciding what gets seen. Just your ideas, your way.
Built by the creator of the Digital Garden plugin. Join the Discord for support and updates.
From vault to the web in one command.
Write in Obsidian like you always do. Flip one property, hit publish, and your note is live on your own site.
The web used to be personal.
Remember when the internet was full of weird homepages, half-finished thoughts, and personal rabbit holes? Before everything became a feed. Before an algorithm decided what you see, and what gets buried.
Forestry.md is a bridge between your Obsidian vault and the world. You decide what gets published, and how. Polished essays or rough notes. A single page or a sprawling garden. Your own tools, your own workflow, your own choices. The point isn't how you write, it's that you have somewhere to publish your thoughts on your own terms.
Your digital garden is yours. It reflects your personality, your curiosity, your perspective. It's a corner of the web that is entirely, unmistakably you, and nobody else gets to shape it.
Publish more than just notes.
The only publishing solution that supports both Canvas and Bases. Some tools handle one. None handle both.
Canvas Publishing
Your Obsidian Canvases become interactive, navigable pages. Publish visual maps of ideas, project plans, and concept webs, exactly as you designed them.
See a live Canvas →Obsidian Bases
Publish your Obsidian Bases as rich, structured tables on the web. Databases, trackers, and collections, all rendered beautifully from your vault.
See a live Base →See what people are growing.
The Fateless Eight
Fantasy campaign world
cora’s garden
Cartomancy, crochet & more
Boards Before Breakfast
Keyboard building logs
Stowe Boyd’s garden
A writer’s knowledge base
Icewind Quest
D&D campaign wiki
Hermitage
Personal digital garden
Elements of Music
Canvas page example
Craft Engineer
Engineering knowledge base
What gardeners are saying.
I decided to migrate my existing Digital Garden off Vercel to Forestry.md and it was… stupid-easy. 100+ notes moved over in minutes, near-identical site, zero downtime. The baked-in customization options have been really solid post-migration. Thanks for building such a solid platform and plugin!
This is not an ad [for Forestry.md]. I am just a happy user.
Digital garden is absolutely fire. I've been wanting something like this. Keep up the good work!
Ready to put your thoughts out there?
Start Your Garden, It's FreeUp and running in minutes.
Install the Plugin
Get Digital Garden from Obsidian's community plugins.
Create Your Garden
Sign up and pick a name on Forestry.md.
Connect Obsidian
One click in the dashboard links the plugin to your garden.
Publish
Mark notes with dg-publish and share with the world.
Your corner of the web shouldn't cost a fortune.
Start free. Go Pro for $8 a month, about the price of a coffee.
Free
Perfect for getting started
- 1 site
- 100 MB storage
- 30 publishes/month + 100 bonus publishes in your first 14 days
- Bases, Canvas, Themes
- Community support
Pro
billed annually ($96/year)
or $10/month billed monthly
- 5 sites
- 2 GB storage
- 1000 publishes/month
- Custom domains
- Draft/preview mode
- No branding
- Email support
How does it compare?
See how Digital Garden + Forestry.md stacks up against other Obsidian publishing options.
Already self-hosting on a general-purpose platform? Tools like Vercel, Netlify, or GitHub Pages work, but they require you to manage a GitHub repo, deal with build pipelines, and troubleshoot deploys yourself. Forestry.md is purpose-built for Obsidian, so you get one-click publishing, a visual design lab, draft previews, and custom components out of the box: no repo, no build steps, no terminal. You can switch your publish platform in the plugin settings to try it, and switch back anytime.
| Feature |
Forestry.md
+ Digital Garden plugin
open source plugin
|
Obsidian Publish
official hosted
paid
|
Quartz 4
self-hosted SSG
self-host
|
Flowershow
hosted / self-host
freemium
|
HTML Export
local plugin
open source
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Setup & hosting | |||||
| No-code setup | ✓ via forestry.md |
✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| One-click cloud hosting | ✓ via forestry.md |
✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Self-hostable | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Free tier available | ✓ | ✗ | n/a | ✓ | n/a |
| Obsidian feature support | |||||
| Canvas support | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Obsidian Bases support | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | beta | ✗ |
| Wikilinks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dataview queries | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ via Quartz Syncer plugin |
✗ | ✓ |
| Callouts / admonitions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Transclusion / embeds | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | partial | ✓ |
| Frontmatter properties | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Obsidian themes | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Embedded Gists | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Site features | |||||
| Stacked pages | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Password protection | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Customizable UI text | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Graph view | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Backlinks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Full-text search | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Custom domain | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Selective publishing | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ via Quartz Syncer plugin |
manual | manual |
| Draft / preview mode1 | ✓ via forestry.md |
✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Page link previews | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Comments | ✓ | ✗ | plugin | ✓ | ✗ |
| Custom CSS / styling | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Technical | |||||
| Static output | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Open source | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | partially | ✓ |
| LaTeX / math | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
1 Preview your entire site with unpublished changes (notes, settings, and themes) before going live.
Where it all started.
The Obsidian Digital Garden plugin is the original open-source Obsidian-to-website publishing plugin. Since its release, the codebase has served as the foundation for several other publishing tools in the Obsidian ecosystem:
- Flowershow's Obsidian plugin: built directly on this plugin's codebase
- Quartz Syncer: initially built on top of this plugin
- Enveloppe: created using parts of this plugin's code
It's been cool to see something I built as a solo project become the starting point for so many others to create their own publishing solutions. Forestry.md is a cloud-hosted option tightly integrated with the plugin for people who want the simplest possible setup. The plugin and template remain fully open source and free. Forestry.md is also a way to sustain the development that benefits the entire community.
Dev Log
Latest updates from the workshop.
Notes with a number or date as their title, and headings that contain footnotes, no longer fail your site build
A PNG or JPEG favicon saved as an .svg file no longer breaks your build
Bases that show or sort by file created/modified time now work on your published site
Bases fixes: dates and timestamps display properly, sorting by date works, link and backlink filters, images and tags render, and hidden notes stay out of results
New publish branch setting: self-hosted gardens can publish to a branch other than the default, so you can review changes before they go live
Fix note suggestions not showing when settings are open in a pop-out window
Text colored with the Fast Text Color plugin now keeps its colors when published
Refreshed dashboard design, with light, dark and system themes
Publish history is now an activity list with filters
Publishing a single note, or deletions from "Publish all", is now one commit. That means one build and one publish instead of one per file
Bonus publishes now show that they expire after 14 days
The Publication Center works on phones, and has a new "Select all" checkbox
Choose the order garden plugins appear in, with up/down controls in the plugins view (also on the dashboard)
On screens narrower than 1400px, the table of contents, backlinks and graph open in a bottom sheet instead of dropping below the note
New setup checklist on your garden's page that follows your progress
The Plugins tab replaces the Components tab on the dashboard
Home page picker: choose your garden's home page from a note search, right after connecting or via the new "Choose Garden Home Page" command
The Publication Center now warns when your site is live but has no home page yet
Gardens without a home page now show a list of published notes at the root instead of a 404
Publishing hundreds of notes at once no longer fails. Large batches are split into smaller commits
Deleting many notes from the Publication Center now happens in one batch instead of one commit per note
Rename your garden, with suggested names when creating a new one
Publish failures now show the actual error in the Publication Center, with a copy-details button and a new "Copy debug log" command
Sites now build up to 5x faster
New logo size setting — control how large your site logo appears
Template update notifications are now opt-in
See your garden's recent builds and publish status right in the Publication Center
Excalidraw drawings are now published as crisp SVGs
Inline notes in Excalidraw drawings render as content previews
Garden plugin manager — browse, install, and configure community plugins right from Obsidian
Community plugin system — extend your garden with community-built plugins
Publishing rewritten on a lossless markdown engine for more accurate note conversion
Very large gardens no longer run out of memory during builds
Fix settings dropdowns not working in pop-out windows
Date-only properties now display without a spurious midnight timestamp
Bases views support more formula functions, with fixes for date and list comparisons
A broken math expression no longer fails your whole site build
Fix Dataview links being broken by markdown link resolution
Markdown-style links now resolve to the right note when published
Image-heavy sites now build up to 38% faster
New graph depth setting to control how many levels of connections your graph view shows
Note links in frontmatter properties now resolve to the right note when published
Your site build no longer fails on images that can't be decoded: they're served as-is instead
Fix cover images in Base card views not resolving for wikilinks and Obsidian-generated syntax
Fix batch publishing removing cover images referenced in frontmatter
New Publication Center: browse new and changed notes in a file tree, preview diffs, and publish from one view
Publish your garden into a subfolder of your repo: new Content base directory setting for monorepo layouts
Embed a specific named view from an Obsidian Base
Hide notes everywhere with dg-hide: keeps them out of search, the graph, backlinks, feed, and sitemap
Regenerate your garden key right from the dashboard
Garden vitality indicator in the sidebar: see your usage at a glance
Personalized greeting on your dashboard home
Fix header links to notes whose names contain an ampersand (&)
New dg-hide-in-filetree property: hide a note from the file tree while it stays searchable
Fix custom navigation ordering for notes that use path rewrite rules
Use large SVG files as your site favicon
Fix being unexpectedly logged out after your session refreshed
Fix local export not creating notes in subfolders on Windows
Custom navigation ordering: drag and drop to reorder your sidebar
Fix wikilinks not converting when the same link exists in frontmatter
noteProps shorthand available in custom component templates
Better feedback when your site is already up to date
Embed GitHub Gists in your notes
Table of contents now highlights the current heading
Sidebar renders automatically when custom components are added
Code editor for custom components in Design Lab
Local export: build your garden locally and deploy anywhere
Fix inline math rendering in transcluded files
Fix diff text visibility when comparing changes
All features enabled by default for easier setup
Live-edit graph CSS variables for easier theming
New design: refreshed dashboard and landing page
Mirror remote garden settings into Obsidian
Rewrite graph view with PixiJS for better performance
Fix browser back-navigation gesture not working
Support Mermaid diagram init syntax for custom themes
Obsidian Bases support: publish database views
Random page navigation and smaller search index
New UI text customization options
Fix sized images in tables not rendering correctly
Better search for accented characters (e.g. Spanish ñ)
Fix file tree breaking when a folder is named "notes"
Improved SEO meta tags
Fix printing of main content
Support for header links within the same note
Link to images and PDFs without transcluding them
GitHub as sign-in option
Fix favicon and logo upload for Forestry users
Fix image and PDF preview in canvas pages
Images are only uploaded once, faster publishing
Natural file sorting: "Day 2" comes before "Day 10"
Canvas support: publish Obsidian canvases
YouTube embed support in notes and canvases
That's it. That's the pitch.
Your thoughts are already worth sharing. Give them a home on the web that's yours, on your own terms, in your own way.
Plant Your GardenEven if you don't sign up, I think you're pretty great for checking this out.
Lovely note. Exactly what my beds were missing.
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Did you try it on the raised beds too?