## What’s a digital garden? I define it as a space to take, maintain, and (optionally) publish notes for the purpose of cultivating one’s personal knowledge in an organic manner, starting from seedlings of thoughts ([[Atomic note|atomic concepts]]), linking them to adjacent ideas, and progressively elaborating upon them, resulting in long-form notes (e.g., blog entries, essays) that integrate multiple ideas. The goal is to unlock emergent, original insights that are more than the sum of their parts. For more details, see [[Digital garden|digital garden]]. ## How is that different from Zettelkasten and other methods? They’re all loosely related, and only differ by format (analog vs. digital) and aggregation philosophy. The [[Zettelkasten]] method involved writing every atomic concept onto a physical card, and ”linking” it to related cards using unique ID numbers. [[Exobrain]], second-brain, [[Ideaverse|ideaverse]], and personal wikis are self-explanatory enough (repositories to offload ideas from your mind) but not prescriptive as to how knowledge gets progressed. Personal Knowledge Management System (PKMS) is a term that encompasses all of the above. ## Why maintain this digital garden instead of using Google, ChatGPT, or Wikipedia? I could, of course, use those tools as and when I need to look up a concept. But the point of a digital garden is more than being another reference tool. It helps me keep track of concepts that I find interesting, instead of forgetting about them. Furthermore, the process of writing about concepts (especially using the [[Plastic platypus learning|plastic platypus learning]] method) helps me commit them to memory, which in turn enables meta-insights to form, and avoids the [[Collector’s fallacy|collector’s fallacy]] (i.e., knowing about something ≠ knowing something). ## Which tools do you use? ![[colophon#^d4c53b|clean no-title]] <div style="font-size: x-large; text-align:center;">⁂</div>