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.