Digital Gardens

What is a digital garden?

A digital garden is the cross between a blog and your notes app. It's a public space designed for you to share your entire thought-process rather than just the final product. The purpose is to allow you to cultivate and grow your ideas and knowledge in the same way you would tend to a garden.Unlike a blog that prioritizes a chronological order, digital gardens are typically navigated through links and tags. The goal is to create a non-linear, ever-evolving set of notes and ideas that link together. Much like a living garden, it's your living and growing personal knowledge base for public consumption and exploration.The key to creating a thriving digital garden is to forget about perfection. In a world where everyone's obsessed with curating the perfect repertoire of content, digital gardens feel like a fresh new (or old) way to share your thoughts.

How notes are organized

While you can organize your notes however you like, here are some typical hierarchies that people use.

Seeds

Seeds are your new ideas. They're typically going to be pretty rough, and is a way for you to keep track of what peaks your curiosity.

Budding

Budding notes take your seeds and grow them into some form of a coherent opinion or thought. At this point you're starting to expand on your ideas.

Trees

Trees are your full-formed bodies of text that may draw from multiple budding notes and seeds to create an essay sharing your thought or idea. This can often lead to new ideas coming up (like trees dropping nuts/seeds).