Digital Garden
A digital garden is a personal website or knowledge base that grows slowly over time. Unlike a blog, which is chronologically sorted and "finished", a garden is:
- Evergreen: Content is constantly updated and refined.
- Interconnected: Notes are linked together heavily (using [[wikilinks]]), creating a web of thought rather than a stream.
- Personal: It reflects the gardener’s unique way of thinking and organizing the world.
- Imperfect: It welcomes rough notes, drafts, and "seeds" of ideas.
Why keep a garden?
- To learn in public: Share your notes as you learn, helping others and getting feedback.
- To think better: Writing connects ideas.
- To own your data: A garden is usually a set of simple text files you control, not locked in a platform.
In the Agora
In this [[Agora]], digital gardens are the primary source of knowledge.
- Each [[node]] (like this one) is a topic or Agora location.
- Each [[subnode]] is a post from a specific user’s garden about that topic.
When you [[join]] the Agora, your garden becomes part of this shared knowledge commons.
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