# Posting digital garden seedlings from Bike

**URL:** https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/posting-digital-garden-seedlings-from-bike/6291
**Category:** Showcases and Use Cases
**Created:** [January 30, 2023, 3:08pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/posting-digital-garden-seedlings-from-bike/6291 "2023-01-30T15:08:30Z")
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### Author: ![zsbenke](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/user_avatar/discourse.hookproductivity.com/zsbenke/32/1811_2.png) [@zsbenke](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/zsbenke)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2023, 3:08pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/posting-digital-garden-seedlings-from-bike/6291/1 "2023-01-30T15:08:30Z")

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I added a way to post [digital garden seedlings](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history) to my blog.

- **What are seedlings?**
  - Seedlings are half-done articles/notes kept in a digital garden.
  - They are like drafts, but we keep them public because not every one of them will be finalized.
  - I can also use seedlings to privately reply to people using my blog and send them the link.
  - Seedlings are entirely hidden, but you can find them if you know their URL.

- **The goal**
  - The goal of my [Zettelkasten](https://decoding.io/tag/zettelkasten/) is to develop my notes into posts I publish here.
  - I’m migrating my Zettelkasten notes from [Craft](https://www.craft.do/) into [Bike](https://www.hogbaysoftware.com/bike/) because it’s [more open](https://bikeguide.hogbaysoftware.com/bike-compatible-apps), and [I can do fun things with it](https://bikeguide.hogbaysoftware.com/customizing-bike/creating-scripts), like post directly from it to my blog.

- **Posting seedlings from Bike**
  - There are note branches in my Zettelkasten, which can be migrated to a seedling, so I can start working on it.
  - I extract these notes into separate files, naming them using their number from my Zettelkasten.
  - I can invoke a simple Ruby script, which is going to prepare and post to my blog.
  - The script also links them using [Hookmark](https://hookproductivity.com/), so I can switch back and forth between writing the post and previewing it.

[You can check out a video about the process on my blog ↗](https://decoding.io/2023/01/posting-digital-garden-seedlings-from-bike/)

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### Author: ![LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/user_avatar/discourse.hookproductivity.com/lucb/32/2228_2.png) [@LucB](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/u/LucB)
#### Post date: [January 30, 2023, 7:14pm UTC](https://discourse.hookproductivity.com/t/posting-digital-garden-seedlings-from-bike/6291/2 "2023-01-30T19:14:14Z")

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Deep ideas, beautifully illustrated blogs, short and sweet video !
