A Digital Garden is a place where you curate and share your ideas. The point of a Digital Garden is that ideas are emergent; they are Thoughts in Progress (TIP) rather than your completed ones.
This notion of Thoughts in Progress (TIP) is one of the ways a Digital Garden is distinguished from a conventional blog.
I have a small garden of my own called Poetry in Practice. I consider it to be more of a building site rather than a A Digital Garden, however. This is because I see ideas as constructions we make not something which grows organically.
A Digital Garden should adhere to ground-rules for the cultivator and the visitor. Shawn Wang’s Terms of Service is a good place to start:
Shawn Wang-Terms of Service
Visitors
- Right to be wrong: ideas are TIPs which can be naïve, change over time or may not be developed
- Constructive criticism: offer your thoughts and ideas in return, but don’t expect me to always agree – develop my ideas yourself and share them back
- Attribute, don’t plagiarise: a statement about copyright, which isn’t waived for commercial purposes – use my ideas to develop your own, but don’t steal.
Gardeners
- Consideration of others: values you will adhere to in your garden e.g. treat others as you would like to be treated
- Epistemic disclosure: show why you hold your beliefs and link to sources and counter-sources
- Response to feedback: don’t get discouraged if there’s no feedback, these are your TIPs – correct what’s manifestly wrong – don’t agree to always respond or agree to feedback.
A List of Digital Gardens
Links:
- Maggie Appleton’s Digital Garden
- Setting Up Your Digital- Garden Maggie Appleton
- How to link your Obsidian post to your website – Keep it – Obsidian Forum
- CSS for Obsidian – Keep It – Eric Gregorich
- [Obsidian Help Aricle – Publish]((https://help.obsidian.md/Plugins/Publish)
- How to Customise Your Notes with CSS – Keep It – Santi Younger – good explanation, easy to follow.
- [[Digital Gardening for Non-Technical Folks]]
- Maggie Appleton outlines some options for creating a [[Digital Garden]][]
- How to set up a Digital Garden – Keep It – Anne Laure Le Canuff goes through the various technical options available
- [A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden – Maggie Appleton](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history some notes on the back ground to [[Digital Garden]]
- Digital Garden Terms of Service – Keep It – Shawn Wang a fantastic manifesto for a [[Digital Garden]] with guidance for some rules to be observed by gardeners and visitors
- [Git Hub Resource – Digital Gardens – Keep It – Maggie Appleton](https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners an amazing repository of everything to do with [[Digital Garden]]
- Obsidian Publish