I find the notion of Digital Gardens to be actually quite interesting. While trying to learn more about them, I found out that they also go by other names. Some refer to this process as “Zettelkasten”, others call it a “Second Brain”, and well here we call it a “Digital Garden”.
Although the names don’t appear to have any connection to one another, the overall concept seems to be the same. It’s the idea of a place for personal ideas and thoughts, displayed out in the public.
This is a digital garden maintained by Maggie Appleton. You can find her digital garden here.
While going through this garden, it really does solidify what my current understanding of these gardens are meant to be. It’s a place to store your thoughts, for you to come back to them later. With the number of thoughts and ideas that constantly run through my mind, it would make sense to have a place to store them, so that I can revisit them in the future.
In fact, chances are I should’ve done something like this to begin with. The use cases for a digital garden are seemingly endless. I could put my own personal thoughts and ideas in there. Hopes, ambitions, aspirations. I could reflect on past experiences. I could even just use it as a place to store pieces of my coding work to refer back to in the future.
In that sense, to me it seems like digital gardens are sort of like blogs. Except it’s more focused on maintaining a pool of knowledge that gets cultivated through my experiences and ideas. Is it a notepad? A blog? A wiki? A place to dump my brain? Yes? No? Perhaps? Perchance? I’m not quite too sure, but it seems beneficial regardless of what exactly it is.
I should start one.
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