Digital Gardens
About Digital Gardens
Quote + Graphic from History of Digital Gardens
Digital gardening is the Domestic Cozy version of the personal blog. It's less performative than a blog, but more intentional and thoughtful than our Twitter feed. It wants to build personal knowledge over time, rather than engage in banter and quippy conversations. - Maggie Appleton
Origin
- Read Kevin (Private)'s post while setting up Dendron
- Rethink traditional blog architecture: no need for "newest first".
- Optimize for capture, then apply curation after.
- Peer ideas
- ETL -> ELT: Apply schema at query time
- Similar to capturing semantic information as triples for maximum flexibility
- normalize data / apply schema only once perf demands it
- Peer ideas
- Presenting "latest first" does not prioritize people
- Thoughtful curation vs doing what's most convenient for a DB
- Prioritizing human readability over machine readability
Other gardens
Streams that are/have influenced the design of this site.
- Maggie Appleton's digital gardeners index
- Joel Hooks: https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden
- Introduced to Tom Critchlow: https://tomcritchlow.com/2019/02/17/building-digital-garden/
- Nikita Voloboev's Gitbook
- Buster Benson: https://notes.busterbenson.com/
- Life data visualization: https://notes.busterbenson.com/life-in-weeks
- Made 750 words: visual graphics + minimal environment for writing
- I like the visuals analytics, and felt it could be applied to a poetry game
- "Exquisite texts": a crowdsourced, text-message based poetry game (seen screenshots for examples)
- Riffs on the Exquisite Corpse drawing game
- I like the visuals analytics, and felt it could be applied to a poetry game
- Linus Lee's trio of blogs
- Main site, linus.coffee for art etc, and technical writing
- Devon Zuegel (Private)'s site / notes
Subgardens
- Quotes page (Worrydream) #todo (Private)
Backlinks