Made a breakthrough in how I think I can make this digital garden work. It always comes down to finding the right tool for the job, and I may have an idea of what might work for me.
I'm at an odd place with my personal website. Before Dec. 2023, it was a "professional portfolio" for my compositions. Now that I'm interested in the IndieWeb community, I want to make something more personal. I don't think I want to make two sites, but I do still need a portfolio for my composition work.
I just read @maggie's post on "digital gardens" and I really like that idea. (1/n)
I definitely want to add more pages, and once I add dropdowns within the menus, that'll be easier to organize. My main thing is that I don't know how to strike a balance of "personal" and "portfolio" in the content I put on my site.
Does anyone else have experience/thoughts on this? (2/2)
Spent the day trying to come up with a draft of the digital garden setup. It's been a tough one, because I'm not quite able to get to the point I’d like it to be.
But I'm resigned to making something to start with. Something I can improve when my skills and tools allow. So I'll keep plugging away at it.
I still hope I will one day manage to implement a notes links graph in my #digitalgarden like @elly did in hers.
If you have resources on how to add that in a #11ty website, please share.
As I explore network thinking in a lot of aspects of what I create, being able to navigate through my posts in a visual way would add something really cool to my garden
The past month of waiting for a response on my lost data has been stressful, and #Logseq's contradictory replies have been incredibly disappointing.
Unfortunately, this type of #dataloss due to #LogseqSync is pretty common, as I'm starting to find out.
It's heartbreaking to part ways with a tool and community that I've learned so much from, but I can no longer trust the software project, and regret recommending it.
Oh look at this! Just found out that Ton Zijlstra @ton is involved in PKM Summit 2024 (aka Personal Knowledge Management, aka Digital Garden / Second Brain).
I finally finished writing down all the research I did on comments for my Digital Garden, and re-edited some of the pages to put that activity in the past tense. I also tried to summarize how the Mastodon auto-posting nature of the garden works now.
Tinkered with some weird responsiveness issues in my blog post index, and adjusted the colour scheme a little - the first picture below is the 'after'.
It's a bit subtle a change, but I like the added 'coolness' :)
Cannot believe I actually watched 59 episodes of #LoveAndRedemption! I was so sure I'd bail halfway. Final verdict: 8.5/10 - I like it a lot, despite its many flaws.
I kept a "watch log", recording my thoughts as I watched it (blog post below). This was a #DigitalGarden entry in action, btw. Loving this method of #blogging! It is so fun I'll be doing this for Story of Kunning Palace or Wonderland of Love.
These days I’ve seen a bunch of sites that look like personal pages (blog or wiki or digital garden or Zettelkasten…) running software the authors wrote themselves or got from a friend. I think it would be neat to list them all somewhere, with a link to the site, screenshot or two, a link to the software and some comments by the author. Or maybe we could have a webring linking such pages. No screenshot required. We’d call it “The text and the code go hand in hand” (or something shorter) with the tagline: “People with a tool tailored to their specific needs to present themselves and their projects on the web”. #blog#wiki#DigitalGarden
Fantastic article on what digital gardens are and how to build one. Eversince I ditched the content marketing model for my personal website and treated it as a #DigitalGarden, I have been writing 5x more and having so much fun. The most fun I have had on the Internet in a decade!
But digital Gardens are not new - that's what most personal websites were in the 2000s.
From Jason 2.0 is an 11ty-powered digital garden with multiple plots. Each plot behaves as a distinct blog and lives in the "p" directory. (Think Reddit and subreddits.)
@dhrystone
But I was really struggling between the different environments and tools I was using, each one with its frigging Markdown dialect and variants.
In the end, I'm now struggling with something else: I've reopened my younger self dreams drawer and started learning #Emacs and, specifically, its #OrgMode with its unique and stable, immutable markup syntax... and I'm even working at my simple #DigitalGarden with it!
I need more? Yes. But than I colud "simply" learn Emacs and improve it...
When I switched from a blog to a digital garden, I thought it would be easier to just write small snippets and insights, without having to worry about having to write an entire "post".
The problem I'm having now is that I can't think of anywhere in my graph to stick the new nodes. Like where does this link from? I have no idea! So I end up not writing it.
I'm working on putting in place the skeleton of my "Knowledge 枯山水" (a.k.a.#DigitalGarden) created by publishing to HTML the notes I'm taking in #OrgMode markup, while learning #Emacs.
In pure #FOSS mindset, it's also hosted on @Codeberg Pages. https://marcoxbresciani.codeberg.page/
Still a huge work in progress with few information, possibly missing/broken links and pictures, no tags yet, default OrgMode CSS, ... but I'm having fun working on it.
I also keep issues open, for feedbacks: https://codeberg.org/marcoXbresciani/pages/issues