> Il faut cultiver notre jardin. [We must cultivate our garden.] > \- Voltaire A digital garden is a curated offering of personal notes. It has a different feel from a blog, because the primary structure isn't chronological. It is a web of links. Also, the notes can be in various stages of development, some quite incomplete. To keep with the garden analogy, notes can range from germinal seeds to sprouts to fully grown trees. Digital gardens are an opportunity to explore someone's intellectual work-in-progress, rather than a finished product. It is a fresh approach to knowledge production, because it encourages us to break out of the silos of our heads. Thoughts can be shared in all their imperfections, to be refined over time, perhaps improved through constructive feedback from visitors to the garden. Many people have written about digital gardens, but here are some good places to start: - https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history - https://nesslabs.com/mind-garden - https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes - https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-technopastoral/ The last link is to an essay by Mike Caufield, written in 2015. It is considered to be a foundational statement on the practice of digital gardens. He says: > Note how different this sort of meaning making is from what we generally see on today’s web. The excitement here is in building complexity, not reducing it. More importantly note how meaning changes here. We probably know what the tweet would have “meant”, and what a blog post would have “meant”, but meaning here is something different. Instead of building an argument about the issue this attempts to build a model of the issue that can generate new understandings. --- This digital garden has been created using [[Obsidian is amazing|Obsidian]]. It follows some principles of the [[Zettelkasten]] note-taking technique.