a jungle gym for thought,
with an API for the mind.
WikiBonsai is a methodology and set of tools that
nudge note-taking toward meaningful mind-training
🪨 Bedrock Workflows
The WikiBonsai project transforms a collection of markdown files into a text-based, easy-to-navigate, jungle gym for thought with an API for the mind. This is accomplished by enabling specific personal knowledge management (PKM) workflows:
Concept Webs
Extend markdown with [[wikirefs]] for quick associative linking
Semantic Trees
Cultivate and train a unified knowledge bonsai across a collection of markdown files
Attribute Metadata
Defines :semantic::attributes for clean, lean, yaml-like structured data
Memory Palaces
Experience and interact with a unified visual-spatial representation that emerges from the relationships formed across markdown notes
🌱 Tools for Growing
Grow your knowledge base with the help of AI-generated seedlings and training: Starter-seedlings can help kick off the process of conceptual analysis whether you're new to that topic or an old-hand looking for a reference. And tree-training can illuminate underlying structures in order to improve your writing and thinking. 
Come with me if you want to
Inside you have strong root. No need nothing except what inside you to
✂️ Tools for Tending
With WikiBonsai workflows, a collection of notes or a wiki is transformed into a unified, growing collection and taking notes becomes synonymous with gardening -- whose results will surely bear fruit. Tending your markdown digital garden is possible from... 
💐 Tools for Showcasing
By simply turning on WikiBonsai workflows, you can extend a blog, publish a wiki, or simply showcase what you've cultivated with your favorite static site generator. 
✨ Tools for Tinkering
This project is about strategically implementing and open-sourcing functionality that will benefit the most users and developers across the digital ecosystem. Thus, it abides by the Unix Philosophy: Everything is modularized and implemented in such a way as to maximize re-use whether it be for the browser, desktop, mobile, or headset. It's about furthering the state of PKM as a whole by building atop "standardization bedrock" instead of just creating a single application.