note.garden

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A web application inplementation of the Zettelkasten method I’m building. Inspired by others’ digital gardens.

Ideas Behind the App

Recording and summarizing ideas in my own words can help me better understand them, even if Wikipedia remains a more thorough resource.
Linking new ideas to ones I’ve learned already can help me understand, contextualize, and remember them.
Breakthrough ideas in one domain are often inspired by ideas from another (inspired by James Burke’s Connections). Linking ideas together can help form new ideas.
Learning in public is better than learning in private. Our minds are echo-chambers: we need feedback. And most ideas have been thought already, so connecting our ideas to others’ can lead us to what is truly original.
Finding connections makes life more meaningful

Why I Need Something Like This

Whatever interesting thoughts I had, I found myself thinking them over and over, as if my brain were trying to hold on to them. If I wrote them down somewhere I’d be sure to come back to them, could my brain move on to other thoughts?
The time I have to write has become shorter and less predictable since having kids: my youngest might wake up at 5am or 6:30am, and I got tired of waking at 5am to write, only to be interrupted 10 minutes later. If I can’t find the long stretches of uninterrupted time it takes to write essays, what format could I write in that fit my newfound time constraints?

Mentions

nonviolent communication

…Lately I've felt discouraged and avoidant about working on [[note.garden]] because the feature I had been working on turned out…
about

…Hi 👋🏻, I'm Steve. I built [[note.garden]] to help me connect concepts and ideas on the things…
Personal knowledge management design patterns

…supports wikilinks to not-yet-created notes), which is why [[note.garden]] doesn't have hashtags - @mentions of other users, though multi…
Cognitive load

…such as by relating new concepts to existing ones (like [[note.garden]] tries to do with mentions and references). Because all cognitive…
note-taking process

…fine. 3. **Inter-linking**: now that a concept is captured in [[note.garden]], I can immediately see in the sidebar any other notes…
Zettelkasten

…thinking|systems theorist]] Niklas Luhmann, and is the inspiration for [[note.garden]]. Luhmann considered his box of linked notes a "conversation partner…
learn in public

…it grows into something big and important enough to publish. [[note.garden]] is designed for just this purpose. Learning in public provides…
Why use note.garden?

…they all stop at being fancy private notebooks. What sets [[note.garden]] apart is the opt-in sharing and collaboration. With one…
community

…m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_of_inquiry) I'm building [[note.garden]] as a tool to support communities of inquiry and practice…
How I tend my note.garden

…Use [[note.garden]] however you like, of course, but here are some tips…
Finding connections makes life more meaningful

…has been one of the most enjoyable outcomes of using [[note.garden]]: finding patterns and unexpected connections between the things I'm…
an ancestry of ideas

…is to the experience I'm trying to build with [[note.garden]], but instead of a tree of people it's about…
in order to grow, we must learn to stay

…I'd always relied on for writing (a habit which [[note.garden]] is an attempt to change) 3. **Klesha Mara, or emotion** describes…