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#+title: Create evergreen notes with a digital garden
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#+date: "2020-06-04 21:32:23 +08:00"
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#+date_modified: "2021-05-04 20:52:07 +08:00"
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#+language: en
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A [[https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners][digital garden]] is a your space for creating carefully crafted notes (see [[id:431532c3-6506-4565-b193-dbfb60eac7d6][Evergreen notes]]).
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Unlike a traditional blog where it concerns the final output, a digital garden cares more on the process of creating notes even if it's incomplete.
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Your notes will start as a seedling, then grow as you develop more insight, and turn into a fully-developed [[https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes][evergreen note]].
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Examples of a digital garden includes [[https://notes.andymatuschak.org/][Andy Matuschak's]], [[https://maggieappleton.com/garden][Maggie Appleton's]], and [[https://www.mentalnodes.com/][Anne-Laure De Cunff's]].
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[fn:: In other words, a digital garden is a properly developed wiki.]
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There are many ways on creating a digital garden but here's my ideal type of a digital garden:
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- Features [[id:583852e4-e56f-469b-89bc-9e5a832c9f04][Bidirectional links]] between notes as well as listing referenced notes at the bottom.
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- Focuses on creating a graph of evergreen notes that can easily interrelate to one another.
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- Composes of different notes of different maturity level: either an incomplete seedling of a note, a partially complete note, or a fully-developed evergreen note.
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- Sports a [[id:0d2264a6-e487-4761-818a-d17d2833120f][Note-taking]] workflow along with an easy-to-publish workflow (e.g., web, a set of PDF documents).
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- Easily creates evergreen notes for technical concepts so that I can easily linked concepts common to resources (e.g., books, courses, documents).
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The idea of a digital garden is mainly inspired from [[id:24b5e144-dda4-482c-9684-958a00d6c986][Roam Research]] along with the focus for bidirectional linking and evergreen notes.
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There are many ways to start creating one but here's my take on it.
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An entry to the digital garden is created first as a fleeting note (or transient note) to be stored in your writing inbox.
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The writing inbox should not interrupt your work meaning a quick capture system should suffice (see [[id:810dc8b6-db64-4c80-a0aa-f9e6d5fa4acf][Create a writing inbox to store your thoughts]]).
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[fn:: Examples of tool that lets you quickly capture your thoughts include [[https://orgmode.org/manual/Capture.html][Org-capture]] or [[https://github.com/rolandshoemaker/theca][Theca]].]
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When you go back to your inbox to empty it, you can then start to create an evergreen note with it.
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If the concept of the fleeting note is not interesting enough to warrant a permanent note, feel free to archive or delete it.
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