See my Garden Rules
In French, “cultiver son jardin intérieur” means to tend to your internal garden — to take care of your mind.
- Patricia Mou in idea sex & digital gardens
Concepts
History
- For a comprehensive overview, see Maggie Appleton: A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
- Precursors:
- “As We May Think” (1945) by Vannevar Bush: While not explicitly about digital gardens, this essay introduced the idea of associative trails of information, which is a key concept in digital gardening.
- Niklas Luhmann: Zettelkasten
- First Mention: Mark Bernstein: Hypertext Gardens
- Modern Digital Garden
- Ness Labs A community and article library around the topics Productivity and Creativity.
- Anne-Laure Le Cunff: How to set up your own digital garden One of the seminal texts on the tooling of modern digital gardening. Her own digital garden is Mental Nodes.
- Mental Nodes: A gardening guide for your mind Introduces the concepts Seeds, Trees and Fruits
- Mike Caulfield: The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral Considered by some to be the foundational text of modern digital gardening. Introduced the dichotomy of stream and garden
- Tom Critchlow: Building a Digital Garden Critchlow emphasizes balancing “stock” (durable, long-term content) and “flow” (ephemeral updates), allowing ideas to mature gradually. His approach centers on simplicity, longevity, and flexibility, enabling note-keeping without formal “publishing.”
- Patricia Mou: idea sex & digital gardens Great introductory yet comprehensive summary.
- Examples:
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