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They’re not following the conventions of the “personal blog,” as we’ve come to know it. Rather than presenting a set of polished articles, displayed in reverse chronological order, these sites act more like free form, work-in-progress wikis. ⤴️
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A garden is a collection of evolving ideas that aren’t strictly organised by their publication date. ⤴️
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notes are linked through contextual associations. ⤴️
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They aren’t refined or complete ⤴️
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They’re less rigid, less performative, and less perfect than the personal websites we’re used to seeing. ⤴️
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digital maintenance - the act of cleaning up one’s digital space. The focus was on sorting, weeding, pruning, and decluttering, rather than growing and cultivating. ⤴️
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These people were digital puttering more than gardening. ⤴️
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It’s a different way of thinking about our online behaviour around information - one that accumulates personal knowledge over time in an explorable space. ⤴️
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Caufield’s main argument was that we have become swept away by streams – the collapse of information into single-track timelines of events. The conversational feed design of email inboxes, group chats, and InstaTwitBook is fleeting – they’re only concerned with self-assertive immediate thoughts that rush by us in a few moments. ⤴️
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Gardens present information in a richly linked landscape that grows slowly over time. Everything is arranged and connected in ways that allow you to explore. ⤴️
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It’s hyperlinking at it’s best. You get to actively choose which curiosity trail to follow, rather than defaulting to the algorithmically-filtered ephemeral stream. ⤴️
- “Catatan: Cara interkoneksi di dalam Wikipedia”
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The garden helps us move away from time-bound streams and into contextual knowledge spaces. ⤴️
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“The Garden is the web as topology. The web as space. It’s the integrative web, the iterative web, the web as an arrangement and rearrangement of things to one another.” ⤴️
- “Catatan: Caufield’s Metaphors
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While gardens present the ideas of an individual, campfires are conversational spaces to exchange ideas that aren’t yet fully formed. ⤴️
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Joel focused on the process of digital gardening, emphasising the slow growth of ideas through writing, rewriting, editing, and revising thoughts in public. Instead of slapping Fully Formed Opinions up on the web and never changing them. ⤴️
- “Catatan: Joel Hooks’ in early 2019.
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Digital gardening is part of the pushback against the limited range of vanilla web formats and layouts we now for granted. ⤴️
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Many of the people who jumped on the early digital gardening bandwagon were part of communities like… ⤴️
- “Catatan: Tipe² digital gardeners
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The collective ⤴️
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Instatwitbook ⤴️
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Users of the note-taking app ⤴️
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Followers of Tiago Forte’s course ⤴️
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People rallying around the ethos that encourages continuously creating ‘learning exhaust’ in the form of notes and summaries. ⤴️
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Developers took to the idea because they already had the technical ability to jump in play around with what garden-esque websites might look like. ⤴️
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number of recent tools have made it easier to get a fully customised website up and running. ⤴️
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Static site generators like , , and make it easier to build sophisticated websites that auto-generate pages, and take care of grunt work like optimising load time, images, and SEO. ⤴️
- “Catatan: Ini yang digunakan. Tanpa perlu modifikasi apapun sudah memiliki garden–esque
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To help folks without programming skills join in, there’s been a surge in templates and platforms that allow people to build their own digital gardens without touching a ton of code. ⤴️
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The Six Patterns of Gardening ⤴️
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There are contested ideas about what qualifies as a garden, what the core ethos should focus on, and whether it’s worthy of a new label at all. What exactly makes a website a digital garden as opposed to just another blog? ⤴️
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1. Topography over Timelines ⤴️
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Gardens are organised around contextual relationships and associative links; the concepts and themes within each note determine how it’s connected to others. ⤴️
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Gardens don’t consider publication dates the most important detail of a piece of writing. ⤴️
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Posts are connected to other by posts through related themes, topics, and shared context. ⤴️
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Because garden notes are densely linked, a garden explorer can enter at any location and follow any trail they link through the content, rather than being dumped into a “most recent” feed. ⤴️
- “Catatan: inilah yang membedakan gardening dengan timline, karena timeline hanya akan memancing pembaca untuk membaca post/artikel sesuai urutan tanggalnya. tidak ada inisiatif untuk menjelajah secara bebas guna memenuhi rasa penasarannya.
- lihat perbedaan antara twitter, fb, dsb dengan Wikipedia
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Gardens are never finished, they’re constantly growing, evolving, and changing. ⤴️
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2. Continuous Growth ⤴️
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Over the last decade, we’ve moved away from casual live journal entries and formalised our writing into articles and essays. These are carefully crafted, edited, revised, and published with a timestamp. When it’s done, it’s done. We act like tiny magazines, sending our writing off to the printer. ⤴️
- “Catatan: Merupakan langkah/cara umum yang biasanya dilakukan di website/blog umum.
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Gardens lean into this – there is no “final version” on a garden. What you publish is always open to revision and expansion. ⤴️
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Gardens are designed to evolve alongside your thoughts. ⤴️
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You might notice a pattern in your corner of the world, but need to collect evidence, consider counter-arguments, spot similar trends, and research who else has thunk such thoughts before you. ⤴️
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In garden-land, that process of researching and refining happens on the open internet. You post ideas while they’re still “seedlings,” and tend them regularly until they’re fully grown, respectable opinions. ⤴️
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This has a number of benefits: ⤴️
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You’re freed from the pressure to get everything right immediately. ⤴️
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It’s low friction ⤴️
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It gives readers an insight into your writing and thinking process. ⤴️
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gardens make their imperfection known to readers. ⤴️
- “Catatan: mengumbar semua ketidak sempurnaan dalam menjalani proses pemikiran, serta menuangkannya secara terbuka. Selain itu juga, memunculkan kerendahan hati dalam diri penulis
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3. Imperfection & Learning in Public ⤴️
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Gardens are imperfect by design. They don’t hide their rough edges or claim to be a permanent source of truth. ⤴️
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Putting anything imperfect and half-written on an “official website” may feel strange. ⤴️
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personal blogs of the early 2000’s turned into cleanly crafted brands with publishing strategies and media campaigns. Everyone now has a modern minimalist logo and an LLC. ⤴️
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Digital gardening is the response to the professional personal blog; it’s both intimate and public, weird and welcoming. It’s less performative than a blog, but more intentional and thoughtful than a Twitter feed. ⤴️
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Things we dump into private WhatsApp group chats, DMs, and cavalier Tweet threads are part of our chaos streams - a continuous flow of high noise / low signal ideas. On the other end we have highly performative and cultivated artefacts like published books that you prune and tend for years. ⤴️
- “Catatan: Posisi/letak digital gardening dalam kehidupan. Secara rendah hati tetap mengambil intisari dari kekacauan dan ketidak-mutuan yang ada di arus social media. Dan dikombinasikan sebagai pelengkap dalam catatan yang telah kita buat dari buku, artikel, dan lainnya.
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Gardening sits in the middle. It’s the perfect balance of chaos and cultivation. ⤴️
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This ethos of imperfection opens up a world of possibility that performative blogging shut down. First, it enables you to ; the practice of sharing what you learn as you’re learning it, not a decade later once you’re an “expert.” ⤴️
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This freedom of course comes with great responsibility. ⤴️
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Publishing imperfect and early ideas requires that we make the status of our notes clear to readers. You should include some indicator of how “done” they are, and how much effort you’ve invested in them. ⤴️
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simple categorisation system. ⤴️
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horticultural metaphor: ⤴️
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- 🌱 Seedlings for very rough and early ideas
- 🌿 Budding for work I’ve cleaned up and clarified
- 🌳 Evergreen for work that is reasonably complete (though I still tend these over time). ⤴️
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- include the dates I planted and last tended a post so people get a sense of how long I’ve been growing it. ⤴️
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- Other gardeners include an epistemic status on their posts – a short statement that makes clear how they know what they know, and how much time they’ve invested in researching it. ⤴️
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- offer meta-reflections on their work. Each entry comes with:
- topic tags
- start and end date
- a stage tag: draft, in progress, or finished
- a certainty tag: impossible, unlikely, certain, etc.
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epistemic effort on their posts, indicating both their certainty level about the material, and how much effort went into making it. They also make a strong case for as a feature, not a bug. ⤴️
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Shawn Wang has written the Digital Gardening which I adore and ascribe to. They ask the reader to allow the writer to be wrong, offer constructive criticism, and attribute their work. ⤴️
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4. Playful, Personal, and Experimental ⤴️
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You can plant the same seeds as your neighbour, but you’ll always end up with a different arrangement of plants. ⤴️
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Digital gardens should be just as unique and particular as their vegetative counterparts. ⤴️
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You organise the garden around the ideas and mediums that match your way of thinking, rather than off someone else’s standardised template. ⤴️
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personal playspace. ⤴️
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Gardens are a chance to question the established norms of a ‘personal website’, and make space for weirder, wilder experiments. ⤴️
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One goal of these hyper-personalised gardens is deep contextualisation. ⤴️
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Gardens offer us the ability to present ourselves in forms that aren’t cookie cutter profiles. They’re the higher-fidelity version, complete with quirks, contradictions, and complexity. ⤴️
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5. Intercropping & Content Diversity ⤴️
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Gardens are not just a collection of interlinked words. ⤴️
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Historically, monocropping has been the quickest route to starvation, pests, and famine. Don’t be a lumper potato farmer while everyone else is sustainably intercropping. ⤴️
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Gardening is about claiming a small patch of the web for yourself, one you fully own and control. ⤴️
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6. Independent Ownership ⤴️
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If any of those services go under, your writing and creations sink with it (crazier things have happened in the span of humanity). None of them have an easy export button. And they certainly won’t hand you your data in a transferable format. ⤴️
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Independently owning your garden helps you plan for long-term change. You should think about how you want your space to grow over the next few decades, not just the next few months. ⤴️
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Platforms and technologies will inevitably change. ⤴️
- “Catatan: perlu diperhatikan juga, terutama jika menulis semua pengalaman pada platform seperti Facebook, ig, twitter dsb. karena telah banyak platform yang tenggelam dan semua kenangan tidak bisa dikembalikan (eksport) lagi. terutama jika akun hilang/hacked 😭
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Keeping your garden on the open web also sets you up to take part in the future of gardening. ⤴️
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This is all my take on gardening, but knowledge and neologisms always live within communities. ⤴️
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