Creating Your First Note
Standard Garden makes publishing beautiful content as simple as pasting text.
Anonymous Notes (No Account)
The fastest way to share:
- Visit standard.garden
- You'll see a large textarea (like Pastebin)
- Paste or type your content
- Click "Make it Beautiful"
- Your URL is automatically copied to clipboard
- 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?
- Open the Command Palette (
::loginor click the hamburger menu) - Enter your email
- Check your email for a 6-digit code
- Enter the code
- 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)

The Four Themes
You can specify which theme to use via frontmatter:
---
theme: technical
---
# Your Content
Available themes:
garden- Default, balanced designtechnical- Monospace, grid-based (like this page)humanist- Warm, serif typographyeditorial- Newspaper-style, authoritative
Learn more: See the complete Frontmatter Schema Reference for all available options.
What's Next?
- Learn about Command Protocols
- Explore The Obsidian Plugin
- Read the API Documentation
- View the Frontmatter Schema Reference