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Nerding hard on digital gardens, personal wikis, and experimental knowledge systems with @_jonesian today.
We have an epic collection going, check these out...
1. @tomcritchlow's Wikifolders: https://tomcritchlow.com/wiki/
We have an epic collection going, check these out...
1. @tomcritchlow's Wikifolders: https://tomcritchlow.com/wiki/
2. Buster Benson's "Piles" and "Codex" @buster
3. @nateliason 's Notes and Book Summaries
4. @chrisbiscardi 's Digital Garden (rainbow style!)
5. @andy_matuschak 's layered, bi-directionally linked system of "Evergreen notes"
6. The Open Transclude UX pattern from @tobyshorin - https://subpixel.space/entries/open-transclude/
7. @aengusmcmillin 's @RoamResearch -like experiment with bidirectional links implemented in @gatsbyjs https://twitter.com/aengusmcmillin/status/1249845320239984640
8. @wynlim 's thoughts on Designing a Self-directed Learning Network: https://winnielim.org/experiments/learning/designing-a-self-directed-learning-network-work-in-progress-v0-1/
9. @jhooks manifesto on Digital gardens > blogs: https://joelhooks.com/digital-garden
10. @gwern's sprawling, info-packed wiki with hover previews, TOCs, and a public change log
11. Speaking of hover previews, @JoshWComeau's experiment with Tippy.js this week is a fanstastic example of adding contextual layers to links - https://twitter.com/JoshWComeau/status/1249028653985513472
12. Also related, @swyx's writing on Webmentions and Twitter as a "meta-commentary layer to the internet" follows this same vibe of bi-directional densely-linked knowledge across platforms - https://www.swyx.io/writing/twitter-metacommentary/
13. To come back to @tomcritchlow for a moment, as far as I can tell from internet-history-digging they OG coined the term "digital garden" 
and have a wonderful series of reflections on the concept here: https://tomcritchlow.com/blogchains/digital-gardens/
and have a wonderful series of reflections on the concept here: https://tomcritchlow.com/blogchains/digital-gardens/
14. Update on the historical origin!
Thanks to @tomcritchlow and @BillSeitz for the backstory insights
The linkbacks flow through Mike Caufield's "The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral"
https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-technopastoral/amp/
Which leads back to...
Thanks to @tomcritchlow and @BillSeitz for the backstory insights
The linkbacks flow through Mike Caufield's "The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral"
https://hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the-garden-and-the-stream-a-technopastoral/amp/
Which leads back to...
15. Mark Bernstein's 1998 essay / explorative experience "Hypertext Gardens" - http://www.eastgate.com/garden/
"Unplanned hypertext sprawl is wilderness: complex and interesting, but uninviting. Interesting things await us in the thickets."
This design aesthetic
"Unplanned hypertext sprawl is wilderness: complex and interesting, but uninviting. Interesting things await us in the thickets."
This design aesthetic
16. Overdue addition to the list, but @swyx has an entire 'Digital Garden Terms of Service' agreement!
https://www.swyx.io/writing/digital-garden-tos/
A beautifully reflection on what we should expect as readers and gardeners - Epistemic disclosure, proper attribution, and the right to be wrong
https://www.swyx.io/writing/digital-garden-tos/
A beautifully reflection on what we should expect as readers and gardeners - Epistemic disclosure, proper attribution, and the right to be wrong
