Nerding hard on digital gardens, personal wikis, and experimental knowledge systems with today.
We have an epic collection going, check these out...
1. 's Wikifolders: tomcritchlow.com/wiki/
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7. 's -like experiment with bidirectional links implemented in
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Had an idea last night for a @gatsbyjs powered Public Brain. Managed to get a (very) basic version of it built for my site today! Inspired by @RoamResearch, already possible to (minus a few bugs) copy/paste from Roam and create a graph of notes on your site.
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11. Speaking of hover previews, 's experiment with Tippy.js this week is a fanstastic example of adding contextual layers to links -
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Working on a new feature for my blog, I'm calling it "Link previews". Pops up a little screenshot, to give you a sense of what this link holds.
• Captures all external links
• Generates screenshots daily
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12. Also related, '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 - swyx.io/writing/twitte
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13. To come back to 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:
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14. Update on the historical origin!
Thanks to and for the backstory insights
The linkbacks flow through Mike Caufield's "The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral"
hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the
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15. Mark Bernstein's 1998 essay / explorative experience "Hypertext Gardens" - eastgate.com/garden/
"Unplanned hypertext sprawl is wilderness: complex and interesting, but uninviting. Interesting things await us in the thickets."
❤️ This design aesthetic
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16. Overdue addition to the list, but has an entire 'Digital Garden Terms of Service' agreement!
swyx.io/writing/digita
A beautifully reflection on what we should expect as readers and gardeners - Epistemic disclosure, proper attribution, and the right to be wrong
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17. This collection has now matured into a full grown essay documenting the history of "digital gardening" as an ethos 🌲
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