The Start of the Digital Garden

What I Learned

I missed the fun of the early web: the weird little sites you could stumble into just because someone wanted to make something. I miss that GeoCities feeling.
It is okay to keep the garden really simple Maggie used or uses only three labels.
- 🌱 Seedlings for very rough and early ideas.
- 🌿 Budding for notes I have cleaned up and clarified.
- 🌳 Evergreen for notes that are reasonably complete, though I still tend them over time.
This article led me to review different options and inspired my current approach in PKM and Digital Garden Emoji Conventions even though today I only use: 🌱 seed, 🌿 sapling, 🌳 evergreen, and 🪴 hub, but I know I must KISS!
I like the idea of showing planted and tended dates instead of created and modified. It is mostly semantics, but if I am going to build this, I want it to feel like me, and I want it to be obviously HUMAN built typos and all.
At some point I will need citations or a system for showing where an idea came from, but that can come later.

Keep the first version of the garden simple.
Use plant-stage labels for note maturity. This is what led me to PKM and Digital Garden Emoji Conventions. We will see where that goes.
Use source URLs from clippings rather than exposing internal clipping metadata.
Make the garden feel personal instead of over-designed.
Find other things that I do what to talk about, while I do like talking about PKM systems. I don’t want it to be the sole focus in this ~~blog~~ Garden. I do have other varied interests. But for now this is a relatively safe topic to publish while I get used to the idea of being vulnerable in the public.

In short I want this garden to recover some of the early-web feeling: small, personal, a little weird, and visibly made by a human.