Resources: https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tY7Z53QJo8
also known as hypertext garden, a digital zettelkasten or a second brain
A Digital Garden is a personal, online knowledge repository, a combination between a blog and note-taking system. Digital Gardening is essentially a different way of thinking about our online behaviour around information - one that accumulates personal knowledge over time in an explorable space.
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.
Gardens present information in a richly linked landscape that grows slowly over time. Think about the way Wikipedia works as a great example of hyperlinking.
Digital gardens are interconnected, allowing for exploration of ideas in a non-linear fashion. They are also open, allowing for collaboration and sharing. This is not much different from how your brain connects ideas, hence the common reference to a second brain.
My Digital Garden
I was really inspired by Ewan Pedersen’s quartz garden to not only get back into using Obsidian, fully migrating over from Notion, but also look into setting up my own digital garden using Quartz as well. I’ll update here when I finally get around to setting the Quartz site up.