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Maggie

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@Mappletons

Apr 15, 2020

@andy_matuschak

's layered, bi-directionally linked system of "Evergreen notes"

6. The Open Transclude UX pattern from

@tobyshorin

- subpixel.space/entries/open-t

-like experiment with bidirectional links implemented in

@gatsbyjs

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Aengus McMillin

@aengusmcmillin

· Apr 13, 2020

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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's thoughts on Designing a Self-directed Learning Network:

winnielim.org

Designing a self-directed learning network: work-in-progress v0.1

core ideas, the process and an early prototype

manifesto on Digital gardens > blogs:

joelhooks.com

My blog is a digital garden, not a blog

The phrase "digital garden" is a metaphor for thinking about writing and creating that focuses less on the resulting "showpiece" and more on the process, care, and craft it takes to get there. While...

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'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 -

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Josh W. Comeau

@JoshWComeau

· Apr 11, 2020

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 • Totally integrated into my Gatsby process, zero manual steps!

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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

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:

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" hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the Which leads back to...

hapgood.us

The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral

Opening keynote for dLRN 2015. Delivered October 16th @ Stanford. Actual keynote may have gone on significant tangents… 1 | a year in the garden A week or so ago, I was reading about the Oreg…

Maggie

visting SFO

@Mappletons

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

@swyx

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