Flancian’s Garden is both a living personal knowledge base and the birthplace of the Agora project. It contains thousands of hyperlinked notes on philosophy, technology, cooperation, and everyday life — written and tended by Flancian over years. Those notes aren’t just a private archive: they are the seed of a larger cooperative experiment in which personal digital gardens across the internet are woven together into a shared knowledge commons.Documentation Index
Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://mintlify.com/flancian/garden/llms.txt
Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
What you’ll find here
This documentation site serves two audiences at once. If you’re curious about digital gardens as a practice, you’ll find an explanation of what they are and why they’re worth maintaining. If you’re interested in the Agora — the distributed knowledge graph built on top of many gardens — you’ll find architecture overviews, protocol documentation, and guides for joining or running your own instance.What is a digital garden?
Learn how a digital garden differs from a blog or wiki, and why interconnected notes compound in value over time.
Flancia
Discover Flancia — the utopian vision, poem, place, and ongoing project at the heart of this garden.
The Agora
Understand the Agora: a distributed knowledge graph that assembles personal gardens into a cooperative commons.
Agora protocol
Read about the lightweight plain-text protocol that powers cooperative knowledge sharing between gardens.
Who is Flancian?
Flancian is the gardener behind this collection of notes — a person committed to using their free time and resources to improve the world through open collaboration. The garden reflects that commitment: it is written in the open, linked to other gardens, and offered freely. Flancian is also the originator of the Agora concept and a member of the Flancia Collective, the group that runs the reference Agora at anagora.org.The manifesto at the core of this garden is simple: in Flancia there is no poverty, there is no privilege — and we will meet. Everything else in the garden is an attempt to work toward that.
The Agora project
The Agora is a distributed knowledge graph and experimental social network. Where a single digital garden belongs to one person, an Agora aggregates many gardens, assembling all contributors’ notes on any given topic into a single view. It is open source, open to participation, and designed so that anyone can run their own instance.Write notes in Markdown
Keep a collection of notes in any editor — Foam, Logseq, Obsidian, or plain text. Use
[[wikilinks]] to connect ideas across your garden.Publish to a Git repository
Push your notes to a public Git repository. The Agora reads directly from your repo, so you remain in full control of your content.
Join an Agora
Add your garden to
gardens.yaml via a pull request, or email signup@anagora.org. Your notes will be pulled and interlinked with all other contributors.