- digital gardens are collections of densely linked notes that evolve over time; you might expand on a note, copy or reference it, even prune it completely.
- there are two overlapping primary use cases for digital gardens: publishing and learning.
- digital gardens offer an alternative to reverse-chronological posting; they encourage [[the structure of digital gardens encourages curious exploration|curious exploration]] without [[rigid navigation makes content feel smaller|rigid architecture]].
- they also offer a flexible, expansive approach to [[4. knowledge management and life infostructures|knowledge management]]; my [[{0.3} how i use obsidian|obsidian]] vault is a digital garden.
- importantly, for both use cases, completion or polish are not the goals of gardening.
- this is one way to protest homogeneity on the open web and the [[the internet has been suburbanized|suburbanization of the internet]].