A digital garden is a ‘way’ to publish in-process notes and writing as they are being produced.
A digital garden is a place where you can sow seeds or weed weeds.
It takes focus away from the ‘finished product’ and over to the process.
It is different than a normal ‘blog’ in that it is not chronological and never ‘finished’.
It represents a network of interlinked notes and thoughts.
This network should ideally be visualised using some sort of interactive thing. A force-directed graph of links? See the graph view.
As a tools for thought it should help with provoking emergence and developing ideas over time.
Andy Matuschak mentions in a North Star podcast that the notes are a way of ‘calibrating your impulses’. This is somewhat related to Setting up for intuition.
This is a definitions.
It’s my garden, but I’m happy for you to hang around and eat tomatos with me. https://joelhooks.com/on-writing-more
See List of personal wikis and digital gardens
References
https://tomcritchlow.com/2019/02/17/building-digital-garden/
https://egghead.io/lessons/egghead-sector-the-future-of-mdx-and-digital-gardens