Digital Gardens

If you’ve found this page because you’ve googled, “What is a digital garden,” here are some summaries by other people that I think explain the concept quite well:

One.

Digital gardens explore a wide variety of topics and are frequently adjusted and changed to show growth and learning, particularly among people with niche interests. Through them, people are creating an internet that is less about connections and feedback, and more about quiet spaces they can call their own. Source.

Two

A garden is a collection of evolving ideas that aren’t strictly organised by their publication date. They’re inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations. They aren’t refined or complete - notes are published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve over time. They’re less rigid, less performative, and less perfect than the personal websites we’re used to seeing.” Source.

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Here are some additional resources I’ve scrounged up on digital gardens and personal websites.

Personal Website Ideas

• https://jamessg.blog/2024/02/19/personal-website-ideas/

How to Set Up Your Own Digital Garden

• https://nesslabs.com/digital-garden-set-up

Create a Digital Commonplace Book

• https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/10/technology/personaltech/make-digital-commonplace-book.html

Return of the Personal Website

• https://jefffinley.org/the-return-of-the-personal-website/

I’ve started my own version here and here.