Digital Garden

A digital garden is a public collection of notes, links, and resources that you maintain and share. It’s a place to think out loud, work in public, and build your personal knowledge base.

About My Garden#

Often I find small bits of information and knowledge that I want to keep track of. Sometimes this bits are also valuable to others. However, writing full-blown, polished blog posts is too much effort or just too much work.

I'm keeping a lot of notes in Bear. I love that app. However, I think some of my notes are also interesting for others. So you'll find no full-blown blog posts here, but rather bits of information that I want to share with the world because I think they're interesting. Or perhaps there are more people out there who're interested in the same things as I am and we can learn from each other. So now I'm trying this new thing, creating a...

Digital Garden#

A garden is a collection of evolving ideas that aren't strictly organised by their publication date. They're inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations. They aren't refined or complete - notes are published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve over time. They're less rigid, less performative, and less perfect than the personal websites we're used to seeing.
— source https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history

Every item in a garden has a status, normally something like seeding, growing and evergreen. However, I've decided to also add declining. These are articles that once were evergreens but are now overtaken by time. In some cases I care enough about it to tend them (make them relevant again), but sometimes I don't know enough about it anymore or just don't care that much about it anymore. I don't think those articles should be removed from the internet (and my garden), but it must also be clear that they're no longer relevant.

Definition (somewhat) of the garden statuses#

To start I'll use the following definitions for the statuses of my garden, based on Maggie Appleton's Six Patterns of Gardening:

🌱 Seeding for very rough and early ideas
🌿 Growing for articles that are more then just a list or some links, but still need some work.
🌳 Evergreen for articles that are reasonably complete (though I still tend these over time).
🍂 Declining for articles that are no longer relevant or useful but I will keep for historical reasons.