What is a Digital Garden
A digital garden is an approach to publishing personal knowledge on the web. Different than a blog that contains polished articles in reverse chronological order. Digital gardens are more like work-in-progress wikis. A collection of unrefined, incomplete ideas that grow and evolve over time through constant tending (editing, rewriting and revising).
Qualities of a Digital Garden
- ▪ Organised by contextual relationships
- ▪ Learning in public
- ▪ Imperfection
- ▪ Playful, personal and experimental
- ▪ Diverse content mediums (videos, podcasts, short notes, long essays, sketches, ...)
- ▪ Independent ownership
About this Garden
The purpose of this garden is to be a blueprint for creating on the web. Notes analysing design, engineering and creativity. It aims to be simple and direct. Content is thought of as poetry, every word costs.
”
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.”
Each note is assigned a status:
| Status | Description |
|---|---|
| Seed | New content planted (created) less than a year ago. |
| Sprout | Content planted over a year ago. Regularly tended (revised). |
| Mature | Content planted over 2 years ago. Regularly tended. |
| Decaying | Content not tended in over a year. |
