Creating Your First Note

Standard Garden makes publishing beautiful content as simple as pasting text.

Anonymous Notes (no Account)

the fastest way to share:

  1. Visit standard.garden
  2. You’ll see a large textarea (like Pastebin)
  3. Paste or type your content
  4. Click "Make it Beautiful"
  5. Your URL is automatically copied to clipboard
  6. Share it anywhere

Note: Anonymous notes expire after 7 days. Create an account to keep them forever.

Creating an Account

Want to keep your notes permanently?

  1. Open the Command Palette (::login or click the hamburger menu)
  2. Enter your email
  3. Check your email for a 6-digit code
  4. Enter the code
  5. Choose a username

Now your notes live at standard.garden/username/note-title

Writing in Markdown

Standard Garden uses Markdown for formatting:

# Heading 1
## Heading 2

**Bold text**
*Italic text*

- List item
- Another item

[Link text](https://example.com)

![Image alt text](image-url.jpg)

the Four Themes

You can specify which theme to use via frontmatter:

---
theme: technical
---

# Your Content

Available themes:

  • garden – Default, balanced design
  • technical – Monospace, grid-based (like this page)
  • humanist – Warm, serif typography
  • editorial – Newspaper-style, authoritative

Learn more: See the complete Frontmatter Schema Reference for all available options.

What’s Next?