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A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
- Because garden notes are densely linked, a garden explorer can enter at any location and follow any trail they link through the content, rather than being dumped into a "most recent" feed.
from A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden by Maggie Appleton
sari added 3y ago
- A 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 p... See more
from A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden by Maggie Appleton
sari added 3y ago
- This runs counter to the time-based structure of traditional blogs: posts presented in reverse chronological order based on publication date.
from A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden by Maggie Appleton
sari added 3y ago
It harkens back to the early days of the web when people had fewer notions of how websites " should be .”
from A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden by Maggie Appleton
Jamie Banks added 2y ago
- digital gardening is not about specific tools – it's not a Wordpress plugin, Gastby theme, or Jekyll template. It's a different way of thinking about our online behaviour around information - one that accumulates personal knowledge over time in an explorable space
from A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden by Maggie Appleton
Gustavo Simas added 7mo ago
- Many entry points but no prescribed pathways.
from A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden by Maggie Appleton
sari added 3y ago
- Caufield's main argument was that we have become swept away by streams – the collapse of information into single-track timelines of events. The conversational feed design of email inboxes, group chats, and InstaTwitBook is fleeting – they're only concerned with self-assertive immediate thoughts that rush by us in a few moments.
from A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden by Maggie Appleton
sari added 3y ago
- Think of it as a spectrum. Things we dump into private WhatsApp group chats, DMs, and cavalier Tweet threads are part of our chaos streams - a continuous flow of high noise / low signal ideas. On the other end we have highly performative and cultivated artefacts like published books that you prune and tend for years. Gardening sits in the middle. I... See more
from A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden by Maggie Appleton
sari added 3y ago
- But streams only surface the Zetigeisty ideas of the last 24 hours. They are not designed to accumulate knowledge, connect disparate information, or mature over time
from A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden by Maggie Appleton
sari added 3y ago