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What is a digital garden?

To quote Maggie Appleton’s "A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden",

They’re not following the conventions of the "personal blog," as we’ve come to know it. Rather than presenting a set of polished articles, displayed in reverse chronological order, these sites act more like free form, work-in-progress wikis.

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.

A digital garden allows me to find connections between my thoughts and the things I’m interested in. I tend to my garden when I can. I can also see how my ideas grow over time. Because I make it public, you can witness all this. This is called [[learning in public]].

Stages of growth

It is important to note that, during the growth process, all notes remain atomic.

  • 🌱 seedling notes aren’t quite the very start of an idea, but the note has enough in it that I can link it to other things and have it make sense to people who aren’t me (otherwise I wouldn’t make it public)

  • 🌿 budding notes are cleaned up and have gone through a bit of distillation; maybe I’ve linked more things to them

  • 🌳 evergreen notes are at a stage when I can move them into my πŸ—ƒ [Zettelkasten]({{< ref "Zettelkasten" >}}); they are mature enough to serve as building blocks for things I might write or otherwise express.


Digital garden terms of service

Because a digital garden exposes my ideas to the world, it puts me in a vulnerable position. Therefore, I ask that you follow the Digital Garden Terms of Service, and I promise to do the same.

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Digital garden is a metaphor and a practice for a digital resource such as a website, usually managed (β€œgrown”) by one person. Its content is usually placed not chronologically, but in a different way. Incompleteness of content units such as articles is pretty common. An unfinished article is a sapling, and the webmaster is a gardener.

A digital garden is a sort of a personal website.

See Ρ†ΠΈΡ„Ρ€ΠΎΠ²ΠΎΠΉ сад for more information in Russian.

Some gardens and personal wikis:

See the rest of personal sites, some of them being digital gardens, at Invalid interwiki: interwiki not set up .

Agora aggregates digital gardens.

What to keep? 2022-07-22

Maybe I should delete everything related to things I dislike from my digital garden? Make it a bouncespace with smiles and joy

@neauoire@merveilles.town

I don't think you should delete things that you once liked, and no longer do, I think you should just write that you're ideas about this thing changed instead.

Abyss

J3s has an interesting take:

to me, it feels wrong. i don't write for meticulous care & growth, i write because i'm desperate to (connect, understand, remember, leave something behind)

it reminds me that i'll die someday & i want people to remember who i was, and how i thought. i leave tracings of myself in this abyss, hoping that it'll help other people. it's fragments of me.

that's no garden. it's a mortal abyss. and i find a lot of meaning staring into it.

Heh nice the digital garden metaphor makes an appearance in Free, Fair and Alive

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