When i started this blog in 2024, i didn’t have any specific plan for the content organization. The simplest option appeared to be classical dated posts, where the most recent one appear at the top of the search.
But ideas i describe here are not entirely composed from the top of my head. They are based on collection of notes from my digital knowledge base - Zettelkasten. In such base, every note is constantly changing, the ideas of focus are researched deeper, some of them become rejected, some of them change to extend of being the direct opposite to the arguments of the initial note. Notes there have no creation date, no tags, no categorization, no structure, only links. I try to put some atomic idea per-note, try to connect notes, and describe connections. In the result - big linked web of ideas, which you can follow to understand topic deeper. I do my main research there.
Each post in this blog is a product of several linked notes, forming a complete research. The problem with posts is - they are not designed to be changed. “Put a date and don’t touch”. After several posts in 2025 i’ve realized i want to also share the Digital Garden model.
Digital Garden - a collection of contextual notes, which are linked between each other forming a complete knowledge. Much like our representation of brain neurons, which trigger each other to produce the result. Every new note is not a distant fragment of a knowledge - it is inserted in the existing structure, connections are searched. It is much more like a learning by association and comparing with existing experience. Finding connections - the most important and, probably, most difficult process of digital garden and knowledge building. Connections might seem so vague, but constant research, constant notes improving help to inveil more and more secrets. Changeability - the key factor of a garden. No note is final, and everything is a product, and a future product of a knowledge. So some notes may seem raw, but this is the point - to track ideas evolution. To track understanding of a concept evolution. This is an everlasting process.
Digital garden also requires a more experienced reader. While series of timestamped posts are easier to digest, the garden is place, where reader must take active part of research. It activates the need to follow links, understand the links meaning.
It’s hard to read someone’s digital garden. The notes here are highly-personalized, they are the process of a personal research. For a reader it’s more like jumping into the head of the writer, and trying to unwrap connections between their ideas manually.
Digital garden is made to cultivate knowledge, not to burst it out like in social networks (see popular youtube shorts - how to make/become X in 1 minute). So my goal is to make part of my garden available publicly - maybe someone will be able to find useful insights here. I would consider my mission successful if this happens at least for 1 person.