Digital gardens

🌱 Pousse · Web · 13 juin 2024

overview:

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design:

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and

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epistemic status:

see overview above

maturity levels:

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confidence tags:

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node types to represent knowledge flow:

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. in particular:

Saplings are single nodes or thoughts. When linking notes, I generally do not silo notes into categories. Sometimes, the presence of specific ‘folders’ or ‘topics’ prevents us from making surprising connections between otherwise related topics (for example, urban planning and data structures).

iframe quotes with context:

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horizontal design:

original:

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with tiddlywiki:

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ethics (authority of the written word, less perfectionism to ship more):

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“the garden is an old metaphor associated with hypertext”:

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part 1:

Rigid design eastgate.com

part 2:

Gardens eastgate.com

learnings from

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Link by concept rather than by exact match. I will often explicitly have a See also: (some concept) link somewhere if I feel two subjects are closely associated. Linking new knowledge to existing knowledge makes it easy to remember. This has helped me find really cool connections on numerous occasions.
Name notes to be as simple as possible. I prefer using verbs or nouns to make it easier to link concepts and thoughts.
Good search matters a lot. When I search, I usually don’t know the exact name of the thing I’m looking for, otherwise, why would I be searching for it in the first place? I use search as an entry-point into a single node, then recall by associativity rather than by indexing. But having a good entry-point can make or break my flow into finding what I’m looking for.