> [!WARNING] Prerequisite > To upload your second brain, you need to well, have one. If you have yet to get started with Obsidian, I recommend checking out [[My indoctrination sequence]] The following steps were roughly what I had to do when doing my [[Digital Garden Obsidian Publish Revamp]] ## Steps to create your own digital garden ### Purchase Obsidian Publish Self-explanatory 😅 You can do this + set it up by following their [onboarding steps](https://help.obsidian.md/Obsidian+Publish/Set+up+Obsidian+Publish). If you don't want to pay, you can consider trying the [[Obsidian Digital Garden Plugin]], but it's more technically inclined and I personally could not use it anymore once I hit 2500ish notes. If you want to have dynamically updating displays of your notes, you can [[Render Obsidian Dataview Queries in Obsidian Publish]] ### Make it visitor friendly Personal knowledge management systems are personally tailored by default so its important to. I personally made my notes more readable by having some context and linking to related resources for my different main topics like [[Personal Knowledge Management]], and by outlining how my vault is structured in [[My Digital Galaxy]] and [[My Home]] #### Create an onboarding sequence To give people an overview once they visit your digital garden for the first time or are visiting from a note you shared, I recommend having a welcome page and an onboarding sequence. In my case, it would be the notes I have in my "000 Digital Garden" folder. These include notes to give information like: - insight into what a digital garden is - what my purpose your personal digital garden serves - what to expect from your digital garden - share a little bit about you - include paths or suggestions on starting points for navigating - I would recommend visiting other digital gardens to find inspiration on your own personal structure. I was inspired by the following ones: - [Aidan Helfant](https://publish.obsidian.md/aidanhelfant/%F0%9F%91%8BHi%2C+I'm+Aidan+Helfant) - [Nicole Van Der Hoeven](https://notes.nicolevanderhoeven.com/Fork+My+Brain) - [Yomaru Dev](https://yomaru.dev/home) ### Add theme To officially make it your corner in the internet, you can learn how to [add a theme](https://www.santiyounger.com/blog/obsidian-publish-customize-your-notes-with-a-community-theme) and make it pretty ;)