Digital Garden

Overview

The general premise of a digital garden is that Notes require consistent attention to become something greater - they should be revisited and curated over time. In many ways the anologies to a real [[ Garden ]] are plentiful.

Notes should be atomic, that is, pertaining to only one concept, numerous and thoroughly linked into a web to other notes.

How do the stages work?

🌱 Seedling

These are notes that have typically just been created or are sporadic thoughts at best.

🪴 Plant

Once notes have reached some level of maturity and are linked to at least a couple of other notes, they will be moved to this stage.

🌳 Tree

Finally, particularly well linked and fleshed out pages will become trees.

Here I believe it is important to note that not all notes will, or should grow through the stages. Much like how in a real garden, not every plant will become a tree.

Sources

Maggie Appleton has a great essay on digital gardening on her own site. Ness Labs has an overview of digital gardening here.

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