What is a Digital Garden?
It's a blogging style and a content structure in one phrase: you write pieces of any size without worrying much about polish. Each piece can join a bigger story or stand on its own, grow later or stay a draft forever. It's up to you.
I started writing around 2007, first articles for gaming websites, then posts for my professional blog. Every piece had an intro, a line of reasoning and a conclusion, because that's what good content was supposed to look like. So when I rebooted my blog, I asked myself: is this still how I want to write?
Spoiler: most of the time I still do. But no rule says I have to.
Then I read Joel Hooks on Digital Gardens, and it reminded me how much fun writing on the internet used to be. So instead of pages of posts sorted by date, this place grows as a collection of interlinked posts.
This is my garden. I plant my thoughts here, tend them over time and enjoy the process.
“A Digital Garden is lowercase b blogging.”
Other gardeners
“Chronologically sorted pages of posts aren't how people actually use the internet.”
My blog is a digital garden, not a blog “To me, a digital garden is a digital space full of interconnected ideas and information that you collect, curate, tend to, and learn from over time.”
The Digital Garden “This is my Digital Garden, the place where I grow all the things I'm interested in, I talk about what I'm interested in, and where I grow myself.”
This is my little Digital Garden