(. ❛ ᴗ ❛.) It’s a little messy but that’s the point. It’s all about breaking free from structure and allowing yourself to just write.
Learning about digital gardening as an avid journaler is like finding a gold mine. Think common placing, meets the notes app, meets journaling, meets the indie web.
Ya, digital gardening has it all.
It’s a personal knowledge data base that specializes in growing ideas through a linking system. (That’s where all the pink links are coming from!)
The more I write my thoughts and ideas the more I find words and phrases that I also want to touch base on.
What is a digital garden?
The Short Answer: It’s someone’s collection of interconnected notes that evolve over time.
What makes digital gardening special is the internal linking system that allows notes to connect and lead back to each other.
Such interconnection creates a trail of ideas that readers can follow. - Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Don’t think of the writing as post or articles; think notes, rough drafts even. It’s purpose is not to be a polished essay for the public to read; although some “gardens” are made public, the purpose is for the creator of the notes. It’s their way to cultivate their ideas, see how they may connect, and see where one idea can lead to the next.
And that’s the thing with digital gardening, as you write, you find phrases within your writing that you want to later dive deeper into, which can do wonders for exploring one topic in depth.
★ What My Garden’s About
My garden is centered around training my mind and developing what I call my personal philosophy.
I’m fascinated by what becomes possible when we take an active role in deciding how we want to think and live.
I use this garden to explore that possibility and, every once in a while, watch something impossible unfold.
404 Pages
If you run into a 404 page, “no data found,” or something that looks unfinished, I know! It usually just means there’s a private note behind it that I’m still working on making public and easier to explore.
Consider it part of watching the garden grow in real time. :)