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title: 🪴 Quartz v2.1
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Host your second brain and [digital garden](https://jzhao.xyz/posts/digital-gardening) for free.

Curious what it can do? You're on it right now! The entire Quartz documentation is fully hosted using Quartz.

## Why Quartz?
Hosting a public digital garden isn't easy. There are an overwhelming number of tutorials, resources, and guides for tools like [Notion](https://www.notion.so/), [Roam](https://roamresearch.com/), and [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/), yet none of them have super easy to use *free* tools to publish that garden to the world.

I've personally found that 
1. It's nice to access notes from anywhere
2. Having a public digital garden invites open conversations
3. It makes keeping personal notes and knowledge *playful and fun*

> “[One] who works with the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but [they] also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important.” — Richard Hamming

I was really inspired by [Bianca](https://garden.bianca.digital/) and [Joel](https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden)'s digital gardens and wanted to try making my own.

**The goal of Quartz is to make hosting your own public digital garden free and simple.** You don't even need your own website. Quartz does all of that for you and gives your own little corner of the internet.

## Get Started
> 📚 [Setup your own digital garden using Quartz](notes/setup.md)

Not convinced yet? Look at some [community digital gardens](moc/showcase) built with Quartz!

## Troubleshooting
- 🚧 [Troubleshooting and FAQ](notes/troubleshooting.md)
- 🐛 [Submit an Issue](https://github.com/jackyzha0/quartz/issues)