Fancy term for “a lot of notes publicly shared online.” Digital gardens tend to be something between personal wikis and longform weblogs.
This specific garden is edited using Obsidian and generated as a static site using Quartz. All hosted courtesy of Github Pages.
There’s a lot of posts out there about the ideal way to implement one’s “Personal Information Management” and “Second Brain.”
Unlike a physical garden in meatspace, the beauty of a digital garden is how easy it is to move things around, so the topology of this garden will shift around every so often as it develops.
Of course there’s also the flip side, see the post I Deleted My Second Brain
See also
- Jacky Zhao’s entry on Networked Thoughts
- Maggie Appleton’s post A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden and Digital Gardening Tools and Resources repository for more info.
TODO list
Things that would improve the garden
- preempt external link rot
- Cory Doctorow telling you not to depend on The Internet Archive
- Gwern on Archiving
- CLI application linkcheck. available as a github action
build notes
See Quartz documentation for details.
The following command will take care of all the git commit, pull/push, etc for you:
npx quartz sync
maintenance notes
Use the AliasRedirects to avoid sending people to NotFoundPage (404)
- page metadata > Aliases
- enter the old slug
- sync repo Avoid aliasing anything to the main index as it may cause infinite redirects.