What is this thing you speak of?

Pretty much exactly what it sounds like. If you think of information, thoughts and any ideas that you have throughout the day as "seeds" then a digital garden (or mind garden) is where you plant those seeds so you can develop them over time. As you learn and develop your understanding of topics and situations, you cultivate these seeds so they grow from fleeting seedlings to evergreen flora, yielding fruit into the future. At least, that's one way to look at it. One of the awesomely frustrating things about digital gardens and PKM systems is that there is a ton of variance and customization among users. You can make it what you want, and while that fills me with great stress, I am seizing the day as it were and trying to find comfort in the chaos without the benefit of an anchor in the structure.

All that to say, I am still figuring out what this space is going to look like long term. I am learning and experimenting from the examples of people like Andy Matuschack, Tom Critchlow, Joel Hooks, and Maggie Appleton. I am reading about different note taking methodologies and the "why" behind them like Zettelkasten, P.A.R.A., LYT, C.O.D.E., and the like. I am using obsidian now and loving it, but I am also learning about Tiddlywiki, and Logseq is always on the edge of my mind. The world is your oyster, especially in the Indieweb community that I am finding myself getting more and more enmeshed in. You get to watch as this process unfolds and this space changes along with what I learn and how I respond to the process.

In this garden you will find:

• Fleeting thoughts, notes to myself, dead links, blank pages, emotional diatribes, boring essays, in short--the chaos of my ADHD mind and the rabbit holes that grab my attention from moment to moment.
• Ideas in the process of evolving into more complete thoughts
• Derailed trains of thought

I am building and Learning In Public. This garden space is public record of that process. I am hoping that it offers something to you as well.