It's best to read from Maggie Appleton the history and benefits of a Digital Garden [here](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history) Some interesting snips from her writing and graphics. All credit to her. ## What is a digital garden? There are three different types of note-takers: - The architect - The gardener - The librarian In a nutshell, architects like to **_plan_**, gardeners like to **_cultivate_**, and librarians like to **_collect_**. A digital garden, in the note-taking sense, is a **collection of loosely organized notes** that you allow to grow and develop _over time_. Your notes become like **houseplants** that you watch and care for as they develop. You plant the seed, and continue to revisit the idea again and again, until it either withers and dies _or_ grows to be something truly spectacular. It may sound wasteful to treat your notes like this—after all, why revisit a note over and over again?—and if it sounds wasteful to you, then perhaps you’re not a gardener. But most of our ideas and thoughts change and evolve over time, and creating a digital garden allows you to _see_ that change and control it. ---- ### 1.Topography over timelines - Digital Gardens are organised around **contextual relationships and associative links**; the concepts and themes within each note determine how it's connected to others.  ### 2. Continuous Growth - Digital Gardens are never finished, they're constantly growing, evolving and changing. - What you publish is always open to revision and expansion - Designed to evolve alongside your thoughts.  ### 3. Imperfection & learning in public - Gardens are imperfect by design. They don't hide their rough edges or claim to be a permanent source of truth. - They're more coherent than chat feeds, but less polished than a blog post – in between chaos streams and cultivated performance  ### 4. Playful, personal, and experimental - Gardens are non-homogenous by nature. - You can plant the same seeds as your neighbour, but you'll always end up with a different arrangement of plants. - No two gardens are alike, and we should treat them as a personal, experimental play space ![[Pasted image 20210704134118.png]] ### 5. Intercropping and content diversity - Gardens are not just a collection of interlinked words. - Podcasts, videos, diagrams, illustrations, interactive web animations, academic papers, tweets, rough sketches, and code snippets should all live and grow in the garden.  ### 5. Independent ownership - Gardening is about claiming a small patch of the web for yourself, one you fully own and control It shouldn't live on the servers of Twitter, Facebook, or Medium. - None of these platforms are designed to help you slowly build and weave personal knowledge