A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden
Beautiful essay on the conceptual and practical history of digital gardens.
Beautiful essay on the conceptual and practical history of digital gardens.
Summary
Several different cultures and concepts have sprung up around the gradual iterative writing of a network of hyperlinked text.
- Wikis
- Collaboratively edited hypertext publication
- originated by the first wiki, WikiWikiWeb
- In turn inspired by HyperCard
- I think I used a bare-bones clone of this that came with the WorldBook Encyclopedia 2003 CDROM.
- It was my first introduction to Zettelkasten!
- I think I used a bare-bones clone of this that came with the WorldBook Encyclopedia 2003 CDROM.
- In turn inspired by HyperCard
- Zettelkasten
- A system of addressing and linking physical index cards in a "slip box", to create a network of short written notes that concisely explain a concept.
- A system of personal knowledge management that predates computers!
- Personal knowledge management
- Old, old practice.
- A library counts as a PKM - the Dewey decimal system organizes books by subject into a numerical total order
- A citation and cross-referencing system counts as a PKM
- a collection of notebooks counts as a PKM
- does anyone I know have a library sciences degree? Anyway you can get a degree in this, and I experience a lust for its syllabus.
- A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden has a good account of the online conversations that were had laying out the concept and practice of digital gardens in the most modern sense of the term.
- Evergreen notes are a relevant concept of particular interest here.
- The term was coined by Andy Matuschak to describe notes that are designed to be iteratively rewritten. Close cousin of the living document.
Several different cultures and concepts have sprung up around the gradual iterative writing of a network of hyperlinked text.
- Wikis
- Collaboratively edited hypertext publication
- originated by the first wiki, WikiWikiWeb
- In turn inspired by HyperCard
- I think I used a bare-bones clone of this that came with the WorldBook Encyclopedia 2003 CDROM.
- It was my first introduction to Zettelkasten!
- I think I used a bare-bones clone of this that came with the WorldBook Encyclopedia 2003 CDROM.
- In turn inspired by HyperCard
- Zettelkasten
- A system of addressing and linking physical index cards in a "slip box", to create a network of short written notes that concisely explain a concept.
- A system of personal knowledge management that predates computers!
- Personal knowledge management
- Old, old practice.
- A library counts as a PKM - the Dewey decimal system organizes books by subject into a numerical total order
- A citation and cross-referencing system counts as a PKM
- a collection of notebooks counts as a PKM
- does anyone I know have a library sciences degree? Anyway you can get a degree in this, and I experience a lust for its syllabus.
- A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden has a good account of the online conversations that were had laying out the concept and practice of digital gardens in the most modern sense of the term.
- Evergreen notes are a relevant concept of particular interest here.
- The term was coined by Andy Matuschak to describe notes that are designed to be iteratively rewritten. Close cousin of the living document.
Several different cultures and concepts have sprung up around the gradual iterative writing of a network of hyperlinked text.
- Wikis
- Collaboratively edited hypertext publication
- originated by the first wiki, WikiWikiWeb
- In turn inspired by HyperCard
- I think I used a bare-bones clone of this that came with the WorldBook Encyclopedia 2003 CDROM.
- It was my first introduction to Zettelkasten!
- I think I used a bare-bones clone of this that came with the WorldBook Encyclopedia 2003 CDROM.
- In turn inspired by HyperCard
- Zettelkasten
- A system of addressing and linking physical index cards in a "slip box", to create a network of short written notes that concisely explain a concept.
- A system of personal knowledge management that predates computers!
- Personal knowledge management
- Old, old practice.
- A library counts as a PKM - the Dewey decimal system organizes books by subject into a numerical total order
- A citation and cross-referencing system counts as a PKM
- a collection of notebooks counts as a PKM
- does anyone I know have a library sciences degree? Anyway you can get a degree in this, and I experience a lust for its syllabus.
- A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden has a good account of the online conversations that were had laying out the concept and practice of digital gardens in the most modern sense of the term.
- Evergreen notes are a relevant concept of particular interest here.
- The term was coined by Andy Matuschak to describe notes that are designed to be iteratively rewritten. Close cousin of the living document.
- Collaboratively edited hypertext publication
- originated by the first wiki, WikiWikiWeb
- In turn inspired by HyperCard
- I think I used a bare-bones clone of this that came with the WorldBook Encyclopedia 2003 CDROM.
- It was my first introduction to Zettelkasten!
- I think I used a bare-bones clone of this that came with the WorldBook Encyclopedia 2003 CDROM.
- In turn inspired by HyperCard
- Collaboratively edited hypertext publication
- originated by the first wiki, WikiWikiWeb
- In turn inspired by HyperCard
- I think I used a bare-bones clone of this that came with the WorldBook Encyclopedia 2003 CDROM.
- It was my first introduction to Zettelkasten!
- I think I used a bare-bones clone of this that came with the WorldBook Encyclopedia 2003 CDROM.
- In turn inspired by HyperCard
- In turn inspired by HyperCard
- I think I used a bare-bones clone of this that came with the WorldBook Encyclopedia 2003 CDROM.
- It was my first introduction to Zettelkasten!
- I think I used a bare-bones clone of this that came with the WorldBook Encyclopedia 2003 CDROM.
- In turn inspired by HyperCard
- I think I used a bare-bones clone of this that came with the WorldBook Encyclopedia 2003 CDROM.
- It was my first introduction to Zettelkasten!
- I think I used a bare-bones clone of this that came with the WorldBook Encyclopedia 2003 CDROM.
- I think I used a bare-bones clone of this that came with the WorldBook Encyclopedia 2003 CDROM.
- It was my first introduction to Zettelkasten!
- I think I used a bare-bones clone of this that came with the WorldBook Encyclopedia 2003 CDROM.
- It was my first introduction to Zettelkasten!
- It was my first introduction to Zettelkasten!
- It was my first introduction to Zettelkasten!
- A system of addressing and linking physical index cards in a "slip box", to create a network of short written notes that concisely explain a concept.
- A system of personal knowledge management that predates computers!
- A system of addressing and linking physical index cards in a "slip box", to create a network of short written notes that concisely explain a concept.
- A system of personal knowledge management that predates computers!
- Old, old practice.
- A library counts as a PKM - the Dewey decimal system organizes books by subject into a numerical total order
- A citation and cross-referencing system counts as a PKM
- a collection of notebooks counts as a PKM
- does anyone I know have a library sciences degree? Anyway you can get a degree in this, and I experience a lust for its syllabus.
- Old, old practice.
- A library counts as a PKM - the Dewey decimal system organizes books by subject into a numerical total order
- A citation and cross-referencing system counts as a PKM
- a collection of notebooks counts as a PKM
- does anyone I know have a library sciences degree? Anyway you can get a degree in this, and I experience a lust for its syllabus.
- The term was coined by Andy Matuschak to describe notes that are designed to be iteratively rewritten. Close cousin of the living document.
- The term was coined by Andy Matuschak to describe notes that are designed to be iteratively rewritten. Close cousin of the living document.
Highlights and selected onward links
- Hypertext Gardens – a signpost in the era glorious dotcommie hypertext mysticism.
- actual cultural speech markers of a WikiWikiWeb denizen
- The Navigation Problem – a bias-variance tradeoff
- Mike Caufield's The Garden and the Stream: a Technopastoral, a concept-ancestor to This is How You Lose the Time War
- A good recounting of the actual digital garden discussions
- A connection to the digital garden and the cozyweb
- Brief detour into an argument in line with Internet Manifesto
"Digital garden" started as a verb. Digital gardening was an intuition pump for a way to relate to a graph of linked webpages. (Old and venerable idiom for graphs and networks! Witness trees, forests, network growth, evolving networks; ecological networks are a metaphor in the other direction.)
- Hypertext Gardens – a signpost in the era glorious dotcommie hypertext mysticism.
- actual cultural speech markers of a WikiWikiWeb denizen
- The Navigation Problem – a bias-variance tradeoff
- Mike Caufield's The Garden and the Stream: a Technopastoral, a concept-ancestor to This is How You Lose the Time War
- A good recounting of the actual digital garden discussions
- A connection to the digital garden and the cozyweb
- Brief detour into an argument in line with Internet Manifesto
"Digital garden" started as a verb. Digital gardening was an intuition pump for a way to relate to a graph of linked webpages. (Old and venerable idiom for graphs and networks! Witness trees, forests, network growth, evolving networks; ecological networks are a metaphor in the other direction.)
- Hypertext Gardens – a signpost in the era glorious dotcommie hypertext mysticism.
- actual cultural speech markers of a WikiWikiWeb denizen
- The Navigation Problem – a bias-variance tradeoff
- Mike Caufield's The Garden and the Stream: a Technopastoral, a concept-ancestor to This is How You Lose the Time War
- A good recounting of the actual digital garden discussions
- A connection to the digital garden and the cozyweb
- Brief detour into an argument in line with Internet Manifesto
"Digital garden" started as a verb. Digital gardening was an intuition pump for a way to relate to a graph of linked webpages. (Old and venerable idiom for graphs and networks! Witness trees, forests, network growth, evolving networks; ecological networks are a metaphor in the other direction.)