A quiet sanctuary to
cultivate your thoughts.
A calm digital space for your thoughts, essays, and photography.
Algorithm-free, frictionless, file-over-app.
Instant ephemeral draft (7-day link) · Or sync with Obsidian for a permanent garden
The Progression
How thoughts grow in the Garden.
Zero decisions required to begin. You do not need an account to start writing, and there is no setup. The sanctuary expands only as your ideas take root.
1 · The Sprout
Just Write
Paste raw thoughts or Markdown into the web writer. Get a dignified, book-typeset URL in ten seconds. A 7-day ephemeral draft to let ideas settle without pressure.
2 · The Root
Claim Permanence
Found a thought worth keeping? Adopt your note in a single click with passwordless Passkey or Email. It stays forever at standard.garden/@you/title.
3 · The Atelier
Obsidian Sovereign
When you have dozens of notes, connect the official Obsidian plugin. Your files stay local on your hard drive in pure Markdown. Publish directly from your sidebar.
4 · The Sanctuary
Living Mycelium
Attach your own custom domain (yourname.com). Your public notes weave organically into the algorithm-free Mycelium network with semantic Hyphe AI.
The web is ugly because it optimized for engagement, not beauty. Every pixel fights for your attention. Every scroll triggers an algorithm. Every click feeds a database designed to sell you something.
We reject this. Standard Garden is a protocol, not a product. Your notes are yours. The design is minimal because the content is sacred.
"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Your notes, beautifully rendered. No dashboard. No clutter. Just write.
One-Click Obsidian Atelier
Install the official Obsidian plugin and publish notes straight from your sidebar. No cluttered dashboard needed.
Master Typography
500 years of editorial refinement by default. Gutenberg proportions and classical temperaments with zero CSS required.
Sovereign & File-over-App
Your notes stay local in pure Markdown on your machine. You remain the permanent owner of your thoughts.
Double Security Guardrail
Nothing leaves your vault unless you choose to publish it. A note stays private until you say otherwise.
The Living Mycelium
Your public notes organically connect to an independent network through backlinks and echoes—without predatory algorithms.
Hyphe Semantic AI
An attentive AI thinker grounded solely in your published knowledge, discovering unexpected connections between ideas.
Want to keep your thoughts forever?
The ephemeral is free. Longevity is yours.
Atmospheres
Six classical temperaments. Infinite expressions.
Writing isn't one-size-fits-all.
Each note can wear its own typographic atmosphere
or honor a vault-wide signature.
humanist
The Letter
Warm cream paper, soft historical serifs, and literary grace. Perfect for personal essays, poetry, and contemplative prose.
international
The Construct
Rigid Swiss modernist geometry and mathematical layout. The dignity of clean architecture and sharp manifestos.
documentation
The Blueprint
Engineered clarity, iA Writer Quattro structure, and refined blue accents. Built for documentation, manuals, and code.
editorial
The Chronicle
High-contrast broadside typography, authoritative drop caps, and deep rhythm. Tailored for investigations and cultural critique.
academic
The Treatise
Scholarly sidenotes, marginal annotations, and rigorous KaTeX math. For research syntheses and intellectual work.
gallery
The Exhibit
Minimal, receded chrome with maximum spatial breathing room. Typography steps back so your visual art and photography take center stage.
Includes companion favorites: forest (botanical greens), eink (high-contrast monochrome), and 26 curated palette variations.
Mirrored live in Obsidian: The official plugin embeds our typography engine directly in Obsidian. Set
theme: humanist or theme: blueprint in frontmatter, and your local note adopts the exact fonts, margins, and atmospheric styling readers will see on the web.Visual Essays
Photography treated like an exhibition, not social media content.
Social algorithms compress images into disposable vertical feeds. Standard Garden preserves authentic camera fidelity and tactile layout dignity.
- Drop Folders or Batches: Drag a set of pictures or an entire folder of photos anywhere onto the page to create an instant gallery note titled after your folder.
- Implicit Diptychs & Triptychs: Place image links on consecutive lines in Markdown to form justified, height-balanced gallery rows automatically.
- Uncompressed High-Res: Full-resolution display with zero aggressive compression artifacts.
- Fluid Lightbox: Immersive contemplation mode with smooth blurred backdrops on click.
- Wear Your Own Mark: Set
garden-brandto replace the Standard logo with your own wordmark or logo mask, or hide platform chrome completely.
Photo A (3:2)
Photo B (3:2)
 → Auto-balanced Diptych
🎞️ A sovereign photo darkroom is on the way: Meet Reveal, an autonomous ingest, culling, and film rendering desktop workflow for photographers.Discover Reveal →
Growing in the Mycelium
The living ideas of an independent community.
2026-10-05
A studio of myths.
We weave stories that carry wisdom, wonder, and memory.
Standard Garden — Brand standards
The rules for the mark, its colour, its type and its motion. Short on purpose: a mark this simple only works if everyone draws it the same way.
Simple paths, zero surprises
No ad algorithms, no data tracking. An honest craft economy.
Annual
Start writingEphemeral
$0 / no account needed
For a thought in flight, quick sharing, or a rough draft.
- Instant web editor
- Drag & drop PDF & text
- Meticulous typography by default
- 7-day valid links (compost)
Community
Explorer
Free / forever
For slow web thinkers and note-taking craftspeople.
- Personal profile
/@username - Obsidian vault sync
- Backlinks & Mycelium network
- Permanent public notes
Perennial
Pro
Explore Pro PlanOfficial
$80 / year
For authors, researchers, photographers, and artisans of thought.
- Custom domain name (
domain: yourname.com) - Custom landing page (
permalink: /) - Mycelium visibility control (
mycelium: false) - Unlimited private & public notes
- Photo galleries & high-res media
Have a question, feedback, or need help cultivating your garden?
Write to us · hello@standard.garden