About
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After a friend introduced me to the concept, I’ve been intrigued by the idea of digital gardens. In parallel, I’d also been trying to wrangle a personal knowledge management (PKM) system and had implemented a number in a relatively short period of time. Capacities, Anytype, Notion, Obsidian…nothing really clicked.
I had a thought, though…maybe I should try a PKM as a digital garden.
Couple that with my wanting to try writing a static site generator (SSG) from scratch because - of course - how hard could that be? :D
Hence this site.
Why?
I’ve been struggling for ages with something: why, as technical and systems-oriented as I am, can I not manage information better than I do? If I stumble across an interesting article, site, recipe, etc. I leave it in an open browser tab or send it to myself as an email with a more or less unhelpful Subject line.
“Surely you could use bookmarks?” You’d think so, especially if these items are 99% in the browser to start with. Just bookmark it!
That gets it out of my sight, though, so it’s all but lost. The number of times I’ve revisited bookmarks is…well. So close to never as to be never. Really.
A PKM might help, especially one with a visualization like the graph in the sidebar or here. But an interesting thing about mixing it with a digital garden concept: it encourages developing ideas, articles, etc. over time. Something can start as a simple atomic item - a URL, a phrase, an intention - and evolve into something bigger, connect with other thoughts, act as a resource for a formal project…
We’ll see how it goes.
It did move a ton of things out of my browser tabs into notes that’ll make their way onto the site…