What is a digital garden? And what is it to me?
I will be trying to figure this out.
Currently, it’s a way to:
- lower the bar to writing
- debugging my thinking
- an emerging semi-structured way of archiving my knowledge.
- Here’s to hoping retrieval will also be figured out along the way.
Since the idea of a digital garden is that things are allowed to grow and start small the pressure of publishing something ‘finished’ like a blog post is not there. At least to me.
Things written here will grow, or not, like in a garden.
Guiding principles
- The goal is to learn.
- I write for myself.
- Publishing the garden gives me a little push to write not just gibberish.
- Notes with the seed tag are for notes that have only just sprouted and are very drafty, and might just even be a bookmark.
- I’m making a deliberate choice to not including a middle tier.
- Notes with the fruit tag are for notes that have already received a lot more love and could potentially be coherent ;).
- To give some entry points to the garden and manage the Explorer component I’m adding the waypoint -tag
I am taking a lot of inspiration from https://jzhao.xyz/posts/networked-thought
This reminds me, I want to be able to neatly attribute to sources where a thought might be derived from. How do I do that with the current Obsidian and Quartz setup?
Technical details
- Obsidian for notes.
- Notes version controlled via Git on self-hosted Forgejo.
- Static content build thanks to Quartz.
- Content served through a self-hosted Kubernetes.