What makes something a digital garden?
In 2025, I think a digital garden has three primary features:
- It's on a computer
- For me this follows not just from the word "digital", but from the aesthetics of "digital gardening" as a verb phrase
- a collection of digital assets invites one to perform a certain kind of sophisticated bookkeeping
- digital assets
- For me this follows not just from the word "digital", but from the aesthetics of "digital gardening" as a verb phrase
- It's hyperlinked
- There is an addressing system for each note or page
- The addresses are used inside the note body
- sometimes directly inside the text as a way of "inlining" the content of one note inside another
- It is "living"
- it can implicitly always be rewritten.