The problem I see with Digital Gardens is that you no longer write for you but for the people who read it. Would you be less honest? Will you add vanity metrics like read books, articles or topics you are interested in just for signalling? Are DG the IG-perfect-life of writing?
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“Just like any good seventeenth century English garden, this Digital Garden has two sides to it – the private and the public” - about her digital garden. I think best option is to have public digital garden as part of your master private “mind garden”.
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+1 I definitely see them as two separate but connected gardens. 90% of the garden is private - space for working out ideas, 'notes to self' and daily explorations.
Curation and selective publishing is a social responsibility given the overwhelming noise of the internet
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Ah, interesting—I think we differ here! I don’t have any explicit separation, except that some notes (including daily / weekly / monthly logs) are marked private. Most notes are unreachable from the index, though, so curating links into it amounts to curating what’s seen.