Digital Garden
My real garden where get inspired daily.
In early Spring, 2025, while researching how to publish Obsidian notes to the web, I came across a video about Digital Gardens, a metaphor for sharing your creations early in the creation process.
This made a ton of sense to me. I have thousands of notes because I write every day and collect lots of ideas.
The "roots" of this garden is my Obsidian based PKM, a knowledge base for ideas to connect and grow.
With a Digital Garden You Plant...
- fragments or "seeds" of your notes
- that might grow into "sprouts" and
- one day may become ""Evergreen", meaning they are long lasting, and somewhat "finished".
I love metaphors, especially ones using the natural world, so the Digital Garden was perfect.
Does a Digital Garden "Work"?
Yes! I'm amazed at how well it's working.
My intention was to start sharing in ways I had not done before: more loosely, freely, quickly, with less listening to my inner critic.
By day 2 of the project, I posted 15 notes, which is more than I usually post to my website in a year! By day 4, I'm up to 23!
Updates to the Site in Real Time
Here's a list of the latest updates, made possible by the Dataview plugin, an easy to use database tool for Obsidian.
Note Name | Last Updated | Links |
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Worldview | 11:35 PM - April 02, 2025 | 5 |
30 Days of Substack | 3:45 PM - April 02, 2025 | 4 |
Updates to This Site | 10:19 AM - April 02, 2025 | 2 |
Camino de Santiago | 3:21 PM - March 31, 2025 | 1 |
Obsidian | 3:15 PM - March 31, 2025 | 23 |
Digital Garden | 3:14 PM - March 31, 2025 | 19 |
Ram Dass | 4:03 PM - March 30, 2025 | 5 |
inner critic | 1:56 PM - March 30, 2025 | 3 |
Practice In Public | 1:34 PM - March 30, 2025 | 9 |
Cory Doctorow | 11:58 AM - March 30, 2025 | 2 |
Enshitification | 11:57 AM - March 30, 2025 | 2 |
Digital Sharecropper | 11:42 AM - March 30, 2025 | 5 |
markdown | 11:15 AM - March 30, 2025 | 8 |
PKM | 11:13 AM - March 30, 2025 | 13 |
write every day | 11:12 AM - March 30, 2025 | 2 |
Also see this on the Updates to This Site page.