Welcome to a digital garden, my digital garden.

One very normal and typically sunny day, I ventured to Google this concept that sprung to mind and heart — digital gardens (why I did this is a story for another day). What I found was a somewhat new but established genre of personally or professionally published internet content — digital gardens.

Digital gardens are ordered differently to websites and blogs. Instead of dishing out time-based articles in a blog, it is more like having a static post (to use the term) grow and evolve over time — just like a plant. The digital garden isn’t ordered as a feed or timeline, but as a lateral composition of growing ideas and musings that are allowed to evolve organically. Also, a digital garden is primarily a private endeavour for personal enjoyment, and as such is not meant to elicit the pressure for perfectionism and performance as how a regular blog might.

But that is about as far as it goes to say anything very standard about digital gardens. Some like it messy and sprawling, some like it ordered and focused. Some like it wholly texty, while others like it quite pretty.

A number of articles have helped me get onto the idea and I’d love to share these articles here, ranked, written by Maggie Appleton, Tanya Basu, and Thomas Schoffelen.