From the Compost Heap header. A pencil style illustration of a compost heap with flowers and plants growing around it. A bee buzzes by and a white rabbit hops by.

  • “The act of taking notes in public is a powerful discipline: rather than jotting cryptic notes to myself in a commonplace book, I publish those notes for strangers. This imposes a rigor on the note-taking that makes those notes far more useful to me in years to come.” “Better still: public note-taking is powerfully mnemonic. The […]

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  • Digital gardens let you cultivate your own little bit of the internet A growing number of people are creating individualized, creative sites that eschew the one-size-fits-all look and feel of social media By Tanya Basu MIT Technology Review, September 3, 2020 “These creative reimaginings of blogs have quietly taken nerdier corners of the internet by storm. […]

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  • A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden by Maggie Appleton “A garden is a collection of evolving ideas that aren’t strictly organised by their publication date. They’re inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations. They aren’t refined or complete – notes are published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve […]

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  • I first heard about this concept from Morgan Harper Nichols, “[Digital gardens] are online spaces where you can collect or share information…an organically grown collection of ideas, resources, and thoughts. It’s a place that you can create online that encourages continuous learning, exploration, and growth, much like tending to a physical garden. It’s a living […]

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