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A collection of thoughts, ideas, highlights, annotations, quotes, summaries, and notes that are richer than a tweet, but lack the timestamped nature of a blog post or published essay.
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Digital gardens are tended to and evolve over time. Sometimes they grow, sometimes they get trimmed back. Though they change, they have the four-dimensional permanence of a river or Theseus’s Ship.
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A digital garden embodies the nature of working in public and learning out loud: Sharing your current understanding and allowing others to learn from it.
Source: https://cagrimmett.com/notes/2020/11/08/what-are-digital-gardens/
Making my digital garden
I've created a loose structure that strings the pages of my digital garden together.
I create basic pages that I can add whatever tags I want to.
I then have tag collections that contain a list of any pages that contain the tags in the collection.
The root document is an index of documents that I manually edit.
I wanted the freedom to build any particular page how I like without an opinionated content management system forcing me into a box. The best option was to use flat files that contain a mix of markup and html content.
From the beginning of my web development career, I handcoded web pages, so it is very natural for me to just add html tags if and when I need them.
Sometimes I just want to type paragraphs of text without the labourious task of wrapping them in <p> tags.