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 Typstatic is pre-alpha! 
Everything changes all the time, everything breaks all the time, and most of the time nobody tells you anything about that. Just like life.
This website is very fragmentary, broken in many places, and sometimes misleading and out of date.
Be patient, Typstatic in development (2026-08). When it’s ready for public use it will be announced on the forum and this message will be removed.

This page provides a wide view of Typstatic’s features. If you are looking for concrete information as to how to use certain features, read the manual.

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Digital gardens

Digital gardens are a websites which some common characteristics:

The garden is a living, growing organism. It’s common for pages to evolve over timeAs opposed to blog posts, for example, which mostly stay unchanged once they are published, let alone books..

Different parts of the garden can grow in different paces. Work on pages whenever you wish, little by little. Creation is iterative.

The garden is not walled. Everything is accessible on the open web.With so many walled gardens, this cannot be taken for granted in today’s internet.

Gardening is not concealed. Everything is public — from rough, yet-to-be-developed ideas to impressive, long works.This stands in stark contrast to how media (blog posts, books, games, drawings, etc…) is usually published, that is only when it’s considered finished, like perfect polished gems. In digital gardening learning and development are processes which are nothing to be ashamed at and are done in public. Life is a WIP (and death RIP… ).

Garden paths are pleasantly convoluted. Pages are not presented in reversed chronologicalUsually each page does have a publication date (when it was planted), but this is a complementary information, not the main axis of organisation. There’s also most recent update date (when it was last tended), as pages are constantly updated, expanded and changed. order, at least not primarily. Other ways are used for organising the intertwined parts of the garden: tags, categories, internal links, backlinks, sitemaps, visual explorable graphs, transclusions, list pages, etc. Wander the garden with wonder.

In my opinion digital gardens are marvellous:

• It’s a very humble approach to writing — you are not expected to present perfectly polished pieces; messy, unfinished explorations are welcome and sometimes are explicitly indicated as such.
• And a very humane at that — it recognises the human component in the writing process (which is iterative, incremental and interlinked) and helps with the fear of the blank pageBecause you don’t have to write the words in their final form, but can put something preliminary on the page knowing it will grow in time..
• As a reader, I find each digital garden a unique, one-of-a-kind window to its author (well, gardener…). They are the prefect antithesis to the cookie-cutter ‘social’ accounts or boring blogs. The diversity in form goes hand in hand with the diversity in content.

For more information I implore you to read this piece in Maggie Appleton’s garden. She also composed this collection of resources which at the time of writing (2026-07) unfortunately seems to be abandoned (it’s still useful though!).

Multilingual support

Multiple target

Structural versatility

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