what is it?
A digital garden is a space to learn in public without the pressure of writing polished pieces like one would for a personal blog. It is a collection of thoughts, highlights, clippings, annotations, summaries, notes, and the like that is tended to and evolves over time.
map of garden
Note
Categorization adapted from The Threshold
- seed: thoughts barely started
- sapling: substantial content with much work to be done—coherence and patterns are just emerging
- tree: grown-up, coherent pieces of thought, essay, or expression that should not change much except for editorial enhancements
- withered: outdated views, whether totally or partially
- stone: notes exported or extracted from other mediums where growth is irrelevant (e.g. clippings, highlights, and reading notes)
- signpost: allow for ease of navigation
- chest: how-to’s and tools
where to go next
- jennypng: my friend who inspired me to make my garden public
- Hermitage: inspiration for my note categorizations; looking at this garden made the purpose of digital gardening click for me
- Andy’s working notes: great explanations of the principles of note-taking
- Derek Sivers: started the /now page, which I’ve adopted for my home page