The side bar on the left is essentially a file explorer for published notes. There are currently 5 big categories, four of which align with my current interest, the other one is a gardenkeeping sections. This section contains daily chores to keep the garden alive, this structure note, and other tips on tricks on how to take note effectively.
Notes created fall into the following categories:
- ☁️ Clouds: These are ideas from other authors and can be anything from small notes, book excerpts, blog posts, etc. The clouds also contain my thoughts about those fragments.
- 🌱 Seeds: Created when clouds are heavy enough and rain down to my garden. These are my own thoughts and notes inspired by those ideas.
- 🪴 Saplings: As seeds develop, they become saplings. These are more structured notes, more research are done to maintain them.
- 🌳 Evergreens: Very strong growing segments of the garden. Evergreens may give life to other seeds, host and link smaller seeds and saplings.
- 🌻 Blossomed: These are evergreens that have sustained the test of time and started to yield products of there very own. They are now gain the status similar to clouds.
- 🍎 Fruits: Products of the blossomed. This is usually a navigation to different garden of their own.
- 🧭 Navigation: Serve within this garden. These can be compilations, structured collection of any kinds.
- 🪵 Stumps: Outdated ideas and no longer developed, but kept for record.
I do not develop these concepts myself, they are a combination of other people’s concept for digital garden. Also check out Utsob’s garden and Tim Rodenbröker’s blog.