Caldera: Your Obsidian vault as a living profile and linked garden

The profile is built on the user's device, and only the finished page is sent out. Planting a note in a Garden folder creates a full public page, while a note marked as public exposes only its title and first paragraph (A note is public only if you plant it in your Garden folder (a full page) or add caldera: public (title and first paragraph).). Emails and phone numbers are stripped; %% comments %% never leave the vault. Every published note is hashed into a signed manifest, so authorship and date can be checked. Gardens arrived in Caldera 0.5, and a later release lets the daily journal create garden pages for recurring projects (each public project your daily journal keeps mentioning gets a garden page that adds a dated entry). Obsidian's Digital Garden plugin also publishes selected notes to a website, but linked notes stay private until you publish them yourself. Caldera's distinct layer is the friend graph, where shared notes arrive as end-to-end encrypted cards. The plugin is MIT licensed, and the reference hub is AGPL-3.0. For an AI company, the license default matters most. Gardens default to all rights reserved and are not licensed for AI training, so a team keeps that restriction unless it changes the setting. The signed manifest also gives a checkable authorship record, which may help with provenance questions. Identity is a key that lives in your vault, not an account, which keeps control of the data with the owner.