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title: 🪴 Quartz v2.1 title: 🪴 Quartz v2.1
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Host your second brain and [digital garden](https://jzhao.xyz/posts/digital-gardening) for free. Quartz features
Host your second brain and [digital garden](https://jzhao.xyz/posts/digital-gardening) for free. 1. Extremely fast full-text search by pressing `/`
2. Beautiful, out-of-the-box website creation and deployment
Curious what it can do? You're on it right now! The entire Quartz documentation is fully hosted using Quartz. 3. Display for backlinks of each note
4. A customizable graph view
## Why Quartz? 5. Endlessly powerful page and theme customization
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 ## Get Started
> 📚 [Setup your own digital garden using Quartz](notes/setup.md) > 📚 [Setup your own digital garden using Quartz](notes/setup.md)
Not convinced yet? Look at some [community digital gardens](moc/showcase) built with Quartz! Not convinced yet? Look at some [community digital gardens](moc/showcase) built with Quartz, or read about [why I made Quartz](notes/philosophy.md) to begin with!
## Troubleshooting ## Troubleshooting
- 🚧 [Troubleshooting and FAQ](notes/troubleshooting.md) - 🚧 [Troubleshooting and FAQ](notes/troubleshooting.md)

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title: Quartz Philosophy
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> “[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
## 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*
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.