Digital Garden Concept

Created: 12 March 2024
Created: 12 Mar 2024
Last updated: 12 March 2024
Last updated: 12 Mar 2024
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Digital Garden Concept

A digital garden to me is a way to subvert the traditional chronological feed of a blog into a way to really sit with ideas over time. As my understanding of a topic deepens or changes, that page for an idea may get updated itself. Many ideas are also timeless; if I write a piece in Jan 2018, it may look out of date where it is relevant today.

Key Features

  1. Non-linear exploration: Unlike blogs, gardens aren’t meant to be read in order. They’re designed for exploration.
  2. Growth stages: Notes can be seedlings (early ideas), growing (developing thoughts), or evergreen (mature concepts).
  3. Interconnected: Notes connect to each other through bidirectional-links creating a web of knowledge.
  4. Living documents: Notes are continuously refined and expanded over time.

Tools for Digital Gardening

There are many tools for creating digital gardens, including:

Benefits

Digital gardens offer several benefits for your personal-knowledge-management:

  1. Encourages incremental thinking
  2. Creates unexpected connections between ideas
  3. Reduces the pressure to publish “finished” thoughts
  4. Builds a valuable resource that grows in value over time