Exploring Digital Gardens
A digital garden is a public knowledge base—notes that evolve over time. It’s less like a linear blog and more like a curated wiki of your ongoing learning.
Principles
- Evergreen: Notes are living documents updated over time.
- Interlinked: Backlinks and related content foster discovery.
- Low friction: Publish small, frequent updates.
- Trust drafts: Share in-progress thinking; label note maturity.
Note types
- Seeds: brief ideas, quotes, highlights.
- Saplings: a few paragraphs connecting sources and ideas.
- Evergreens: refined, well-linked summaries or guides.
Workflow
- Capture in a notes app (Obsidian, Bear).
- Refactor and link related notes; add tags and titles.
- Publish to your site as Markdown; keep permalinks stable.
- Revisit and upgrade note maturity over time.
Tooling
- Static site: Eleventy or Hugo.
- Styling: Tailwind CSS.
- Graph/backlinks (optional): Obsidian’s graph view; or generate related posts via tags/links.
Publishing
- Create a
/garden/or/notes/section in your site. - Use front matter for title, tags, and updated date.
- Host on Netlify or Vercel for easy CI/CD.