Digital Gardens
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Purpose of digital gardening
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Anne-Laure shared this first version with the Telegram group
| Notes | Digital Garden | Blog | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Privacy/Visibility | Private | Semi-Public | Public |
| Chronological data | Created | Edited | Published |
| Format | Bullet points | A few paragraphs | An essay |
| Frequency | Hourly | Daily/Weekly | Weekly/Monthly |
| Platform | Note-taking app | Static site | CMS |
| Purpose | Collecting | Connecting | Creating |
Workflow
From p.digital_gardens.workflow
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- I take constant notes through the day of random thoughts and ideas
- I take notes on articles I read and things I watch
- Each day, I review the notes and decide whether they are worth extracting
- Once extracted, I link them to other things I think are relevant
- I review the graph and look for nodes that look interesting.
| Steps | Notetaking | Digital Gardening |
|---|---|---|
| Have/read/encounter idea | ||
| Record (syn > sum) | ||
| Link to other ideas | ||
| Review groups of ideas | ||
| Consider next steps |
Why I like Dendron
- I like heirarchy
- I like the ease of publishing
- I like being able to include notes
- It uses a tool I already have open
- It has a growing, friendly community around it
- It's file and local first
Examples of digital gardens
From p.digital_gardens.examples
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Some of my go-to examples:
- Andy Matuschak
- Anne-Laure Le Cunff
- Shawn Wang
- Maggie Appleton
- Tom Critchlow
- Gwern
- Rosano
- Luciano Strika
- Joel Hooks
- Rob Haisfield
Further list of examples to explore
Tools for digital gardening
From p.digital_gardens.tools
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| Tool | Focus | Write in | Technical |
|---|---|---|---|
| TiddlyWiki | Think personal wikipedia. | WYSIWYG in Browser | High |
| Dendron | Easily publish all or some. Impose heirarchy. | Markdown in VSCode | Medium |
| Foam | Intuiative. Pretty. Big community. Graph. | Markdown in VSCode | Medium |
| Obsidian | Focus on personal and private note taking. Graph. | Markdown in app | Low |
| Notion | App or Browser | Low | |
| Gitbook | Document. Shared. | Markdown | Medium |
| Roam | Intuiative. Pretty. Big community. Graph. | Markdown+ in Browser | Low |
| org-roam | Powerful. | emacs | High |
| Hypothesis | |||
| gatsby-theme-brain | |||
| simple-jeykll | |||
| Quote backs |
Other lists
Articles
From p.digital_gardens.articles
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Articles
- Of Digital Streams, Campfires and Gardens
- The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral
- How the Blog Broke the Web
- You and your mind garden
- Maggie's history
- Shawn Wang - Learning in Public
- My blog is a digital garden, not a blog
- MIT - Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet
- Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook, Getting Things Done, And Other Systems
- How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
- On Digital Gardens, Blogs, Personal Spaces, and the Future
- What are digital gardens
- The Swale: Weaving between Garden and Stream
- Website Philosophy & Structure
- How to set up your own digital garden
- How to build a digital garden with TiddlyWiki
Building a second brain
- HOW TO BUILD A SECOND BRAIN IN NOTION, BY MARIA ALDREY
- The PARA Method: A Universal System for Organizing Digital Information
Zettelkasten
- How to take Smart Notes
- Zettelkasten
- Create a Zettelkasten for your Notes to Improve Thinking and Writing
- Atomic notes: How to use Zettelkasten to boost your creativity and productivity