My digital garden #2
I forgot. I have a digital garden out. It's in a vercel project for now but someday it will have it's own domain.
I would like to change it so it is my own system. It's good enough for now.
I have been doing this for some time now.
Also consider that I'm writing all of it in spanish, and that I'm writing all of this for myself mostly. It's very possible you will not have the context necessary to understand some of these. And I'm publishing everything there, some things are too personal.
But as kind of a rule, publishing is opt-out instead of opt-in. So many things are there.
I'm using obsidian, with the digital garden plugin and zotero. I modeled this after the luhmen method but I found it to be overkill for me so I'm doing my own thing now.
The first notes are a chore. It's interesting to write but I found no special benefit from them.
The real benefit is when I started having these kinds of conversations and debates with my notes. I found myself frequently thinking "you IDIOT!" or "I'm so amazing" at the things I wrote previously. And to promote this I started writing these... "question" notes.
You see, the whole point of doing a luhmen note system is to make connections between notes. How am I supposed to make interesting connections? Where do these come from? How do I make them? The answer I found is to do interesting questions, and to try to find the answer with my notes. This makes me write very very interesting answers, as I end up connecting things across very different domains.
This method is still, kind of a shore to write. To give fuel. But once you bootstrap like 50 or so notes, then things really start moving. So far including my offline notes I have like 80 notes and it's become so much easier to write and use.
Use for what? What do I get from this?
So far. I have been using it academically mainly. To write my documentation and all that, as I'm doing something kinda heavy in math for now. It has been amazing because I found connections between domains and notes and it has been very very interesting work like that. I also have my more personal, introspective notes. And some thing from other domains, such as taking smart notes, or ultralearning recently. And it's so interesting how knowledge jumps between domains, like a metaphor generating machine.
Outside of this context, it's a drag to add things in the digital garden. But if you add and modify things inside the system, like a debate or a discussion with your own ideas, then it's a wonder. I set up my system in a way that promotes conflict between ideas because it's fun. I had to find my fun in this before I started seeing benefits.
Take a look! And thank you for cheeking it out this far.