📓 digital gardens.md by @bbchase ☆

https://nesslabs.com/mind-garden
- guide
  - First, you need to seed your mind garden with quality content.
    - Having a diverse information diet is more important than striving for an unattainably perfect information diet.
  - Take notes
    - https://nesslabs.com/generation-effect
    - you remember things better when you make your own version of it.
  - Tend the garden
    - take clipping from previous ideas
    - graft parts of ideas into others
  - Share the seeds with others
    - make some ideas public
- Creating the garden
  - Examples
    - https://notes.andymatuschak.org/
      - [[evergreen notes]]
    - https://tomcritchlow.com/2019/02/17/building-digital-garden/
      - coined the term
      - streams, campfires, gardens
    - https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden
    - https://www.gwern.net/
    - https://meaningness.com/
      - more of a book
    - https://twitter.com/Mappletons/status/1250532315459194880
      - list by Maggie appleton
    - https://www.mentalnodes.com/
  - Note -> Garden -> Publish
- I think these ideas all make sense to me, but I need to think about how to actually use them. I can collect interesting articles or go off on tangents about intellectually interesting ideas, but in order to make this a useful tool and not just a toy, I think I need to fill it with things that I actually use. That probably means a lot of [[networking]] knowledge right now.
- It is interesting though, that being in this space has piqued my interest in other areas of knowledge. I don’t know if that’s just seeing a trend, nostalgia for previous musings, or a real interest.
- Another way to think about this: Where could I add meaningful thoughts to the public sphere. Where might I have a hope of contributing?
- https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history
  - Mark Bernstein’s 1998 essay Hypertext Gardens
  - with clear writing, you usually don’t need complex navigation unless the subject matter ‘ especially complex
  - Ridgid structure is costly and pulls attention away from the message. You want traffic to center around the best pages, not navigation
  - https://wiki.c2.com/?WikiGardener
  - https://wiki.c2.com/?WikiGnome
  - Mike Caufield keynote on The Garden and the Stream: a Technopastoral
    - essay: https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-technopastoral/
    - " we have been swept away by streams"
    - "streams are fleeting. They surface the Zetigeisty thoughts of the last 24 hours. They are not designed to accumulate knowledge, connect disparate information, or mature over time.”
    - Articles present an opinion. Gardens- collections of connected ideas - don’t know what they think yet
other related ideas
- web rings
- wikis
- [[Roam as a browser]]
- Blogs