A scribble: My Digital Garden
In an effort to try and add more often than never to my blog, I had an idea that starting all my posts with “in which” would help remove some of the pressure I feel to perfect these things before posting them. By changing the title, I thought I could change my perspective on what I was writing from a polished post to a story I was telling which. For some intangible reason this felt a little better to me.
After discussing with Claude whether this would be effective or just window dressing, I was re-recommended the concept of Digital Gardens through Maggie Appleton’s A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden. This isn’t the first time I’ve come across this idea, but it’s the first time it’s clicked. Previously I was thinking about recording information that I could use later or Building a second brain, but again I had this idea of perfection for the information that would go into that second brain.
This time I’m trying something different: allowing imperfection through tagging the effort that went into a post using status. As a nod to my initial idea of these being stories my personal stages are scribble, draft and tale getting more polished from left to right. I particularly like scribble and tale because on one end it could just be some notes from the back of a napkin, and on the other end it’s a story told potentially changing as it’s retold.
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