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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 & evolve over time through constant tending (editing, rewriting & revising).
Qualities
Key qualities of a digital garden:
- Organised by contextual relationships
- Learning in public
- Imperfection
- Playful, personal & experimental
- Diverse content mediums (videos, podcasts, short notes, long essays, sketches, ...)
- Independent ownership
Status
This garden assigns a status to each piece of content:
| Seed | A new idea recently planted. | |
|---|---|---|
| Sprout | Content planted less than a year ago & regularly tended. | |
| Mature | Content planted over a year ago & regularly tended. | |
| Decaying | Content that hasn’t been tended in over a year. |
About the Author
I was a teacher who couldn’t find the tools needed to do my job, so I started making my own. I use my knowledge of pedagogy to learn & teach. I believe stories are our best learning tool. The purpose of this garden is to be a living notebook about web development.