Digital Garden

A digital garden is something that I do not have the brain to explain myself, but here’s some pretty decent articles on the topic — also from other digital gardens!

• https://www.ssp.sh/brain/digital-garden

  This is where I first encountered the topic, funfact.

• https://jzhao.xyz/posts/networked-thought

  ^ this one’s made by the creator of the framework I’m using, Quartz (v4)

• https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners

  There’s a nice list of other digital gardens here!

I also just didn’t feel like redefining something that other people have defined already, haha.

How I curate this Garden

Now this is something I’m actually interested in talking about.

Currently, this garden resides as a subdirectory in my main Obsidian Vault. I use this vault pretty religiously, ranging from keeping track of my day-to-day tasks to taking notes about some of my favorite hobbies and interests. I have this vault open on my main laptop almost 24/7, making it very frictionless to chuck some new notes in.

And it needs to be frictionless. I don’t do well if updating my blog/website takes more steps than I want to deal with at that point in time. And often I get overwhelmed at step 1. open the damn writing software.

This also means deploys should be as frictionless as possible! I created a deploy script that copies my files to my host (which is my own VPS running its own webserver, very simplistic).

This deploy script is automatically ran every four hours, though I also run it manually from time to time.

Other than that, the source code for the actual quartz instance can be found over here. I have an (incomplete) log of modifications made to it over here as well!