Grow a web of linked notes and tasks.
FluxGarden is your own wiki for thinking and doing: a private garden for your notes and tasks, and a public garden for what you're ready to share.
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No idea is an island.
Every note connects to others, and the connections are where the thinking happens.
No idea is ever finished
(except in retrospect). You refine it, jump off in a new direction, rediscover it a year later, and refine it again. Your notes tool should make that cheap.
Some ideas belong in public. Most aren't ready yet.
Moving a thought from private to public should be a copy-paste, not a format conversion.
How it works
So FluxGarden keeps it simple.
You get 2 gardens, under one subdomain you pick (like "alice.flux.garden"):
Both work the same way:
- Markdown, plus [[double brackets]] to link pages. Every page shows its Backlinks automatically.
- A front page of your most recently updated pages, each with an excerpt.
- Full-text and title search.
- Your outer garden also gets an RSS (Atom) feed.
![Editing a page, with [[double bracket]] links](/static/page_editing.jpg?v=1790375825)
New: private tasks
Now your tasks can be just as linky.
Some of your work fits a pretty "project" package. Lots of it doesn't: your bathroom remodel, your band, your health, your Q3 launch. So your tasks live in your inner garden, in the same graph as your notes, nested however deep you need.
- A wiki for your tasks. Any task can link to any note, so you can see why it's there and how much effort it deserves.
- An infinite outline/graph. Break work down at any depth, and put a task under two parents without copying it.
- Your Most Important Tasks, and nothing else. Star a few, and your task page shows just those, grouped by Area. The rest can wait.
- No wall of red. Nothing goes overdue, because nothing has a due date.
- Blocked tasks mark themselves, and reopen when the blocker is done.
Export is coming next, so your graph stays yours. Using Obsidian, Confluence, or an outliner for this today? Tell me about your setup: bill@simplest-thing.com
It all runs in your browser. That means:
Who makes this?
I'm Bill Seitz, and for now it's just me. I've been keeping my notes in wikis for 25 years:
- 1999 discovered wiki, and immediately started using it for my private notes.
- 2002 switched my blog to a "wikilog".
- 2003 started a hosting service for wikilogs.
- 2013 wrote and self-published the ebook Hack Your Life with a Private Wiki Notebook: Mash Up "Getting Things Done" and Other Systems.
- 2016 after years of running forks of other people's code, moved my public wikilog to code I wrote from scratch. That code is FluxGarden.
- 2020 moved my private notebook onto it too.
- 2026 added tasks, so my to-dos live in the same web as my notes.
My outer garden now has about 18,000 pages, and my inner garden about 3,000. I use FluxGarden every day, so I'm usually the first to hit any rough edge.
For a quick tour (with video), see Getting Started With FluxGarden.
Pricing, after your 14-day free trial
You enter a card to start the trial, but you're not charged until day 15. Cancel anytime from the "Manage billing" link.