What is a digital garden?

This site is based on the concept of a digital garden that was particularly popular a few years ago. As the linked article states, a digital garden is:

...a collection of evolving ideas that aren’t strictly organised by their publication date. They’re inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations. They aren’t refined or complete - notes are published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve over time. They’re less rigid, less performative, and less perfect than the personal websites we’re used to seeing.

Or, essentially, a digital garden is a public notebook of interlinked ideas that is constantly tweaked and tended to.

This space is in part a quiet pushback against the urge to wait until something is “finished” before sharing it - I can publish short notes on here without working them into full blown essays or articles. And I can capture my thoughts on the wide and ever changing range of things that my brain is interested in.

I am also finding that the workflow of refining my initial notes until they are suitable for publishing here significantly reduces the risk of collector's fallacy.

Technical notes

This site currently uses Digital Garden plug-in for Obsidian.