🌱 Digital Garden – Aesthetic Notion Template | for learning and self-study

A knowledge management system for learning & note-taking☁️

Meet your new digital home for thinking, learning, and capturing ideas — a calm, structured, aesthetic space where you can plant and grow ideas. It’s designed to help you slow down, process what you’re learning, and turn consumed content into knowledge you can actually use.

No more scattered notes or forgotten ideas. The Digital Garden Notion Template helps you organize your notes in a wide arrange of topics, for all type of media you consume, from books and articles to podcasts and movies. This setup works like a personal wiki: a place where you link your related notes together, and watch as patterns and connections emerge naturally — a system that mirrors how your mind works.

You start by taking Source Material Notes; quick notes from anything you read, watch, or listen to. From these notes, you create small, focused Cards, each capturing one single idea written in your own words. Your Cards can then be organized by topic and linked to each other, so related ideas form small clusters. Over time, this creates a personal knowledge system that grows with you and you will start to see how different ideas relate in unexpected ways.

Designed with soft greens, charming GIFs, and beautiful Ghibli-inspired visuals, this Notion template turns note-taking into a cozy, mindful ritual you’ll actually look forward to. Whether you’re a student, a lifelong learner, a creative spirit, or simply someone who loves aesthetic, functional spaces, this system helps you collect ideas with ease, transform them into clear concepts, and build a personal knowledge base that feels calm, intentional, and genuinely inspiring to use.

(( Who is this template for? ))

• Students and researchers who want to effectively organize their notes, sources and cross-reference ideas.
• Content creators who want their drafts, ideas, and research to live in one connected system that makes building articles, posts, and scripts effortless.
• Creatives and hobbyists who need a system where they can collect ideas and inspirations to spark fresh concepts.
• Anyone who’s tired of consuming content passively and is ready to replace scattered notes with a simple, organized system.

(( What’s inside ))

• Source Material Notes for books, podcasts, articles and more
• Cards for deconceptualized, single-idea notes
• Hyperlinked connections between related ideas
• Tag system with optional parent & sub-tags
• Inbox for new, unprocessed notes
• Discovery section to resurface forgotten ideas

(( What this template helps you do ))

• Take better notes on anything you consume
• Understand and remember information more deeply
• Build a network of connected ideas
• Organize your knowledge by topics
• See patterns and relationships between concepts

(( You will need ))

↳ Notion account: The free version is enough!
↳ Internet connection is needed to access the Notion template.

(( Note that ))

• This purchase grants access to the Digital Garden Notion Template for one single user. It may not be shared, sold, copied, or distributed in any form.
• The template fully utilises Notion’s functionality, so if you’re familiar with how Notion works, it should feel intuitive. A written tutorial is included within the template that explains the functions and the Digital Garden concept. If you have any further questions, customer support is just an email away!
• The free Notion plan allows only one chart per workspace, so the chart in this template may not function if you already have another chart in your workspace.
• For the smoothest experience, this template is best used on desktop.

Have questions about buying or using this template? Shoot me an email at contact.petraforgo@gmail.com 💌