Digital Gardening

[toothpastepancake]

Hi everyone! I recently got into the idea of digital gardening. According to IndieWeb, A digital garden is a particular practice of creating & growing an online and public IndieWeb presence that focuses more on topics & relationships than a timeline like blogs, has content of different levels of development, is imperfect and often a playground for experimentation, learning, revising, iteration, and growth for diverse content, perhaps interlinked with other digital gardens. It’s kind of like a carefully tended digital commonplace book.

I was wondering if anyone else did digital gardening? I’ve seen more techy people use the SSG Quartz, and for non small web solutions, Obsidian is popular, others use Notion, Bear, etc. Tons of apps exist for this (r/digitalgardening is a good subreddit!) and I think you could use DW for it too! but I serve mine on a static hand coded site here on my personal website and my question is. If you have a public digital gardening on the small web, I’d love a link! If you like the idea and want to try it, let me know!

Comments

[matsushima]

I think of my Dreamwidth as a digital garden, even if it is chronological - it's a repository for my thoughts and I've started back-linking to other entries like digital gardens do. (You could use the tags and/or memories function for this.)

My grad school website is informed by the digital garden ethos of "learning in public."

[luckyzukky]

you already know of mine but for those who don't, mine is called sakura and runs on quartz :) this post inspires me to work on it more— it's been a while since i last touched it!!

love your little garden too, the design is fun and unique!!!

[thatjustwontbreak]

How interesting and inspiring! Now I want to try it.

[axolotls]

I don't care much for the "learning in public" angle (great if others enjoy it, but the way it was described in the original article and the articles it linked to on the topic made it seem a bit too performative to me), but I am definitely for more webpages that are organised by topic (i.e., pages rather than just a single blog with tags). And I think it's 100% fine to put a page up even though it's a WIP.

[cennydd]

ooo I've been thinking about combining my various online identities into one (I'm feeling stretched a bit thin right now), and wanting the hub to be a website, but wasn't sure how I wanted it to work. This gives me ideas though.

[merest]

This is exactly what my own website is, I just don't think I ever really thought to put a name to it.

In terms of things I'd like to add, I keep telling myself I'll play with SVGs more, not just the base shapes you can code, but conversion of some of my art into the format as well. The capacity to scale stuff to extremes without loosing detail + the way you can animate and add text elements to them is super cool.