- An idea garden is a collection of seeds, perhaps [[🌲 atomic notes]]. - Idea gardens can also live in physical notebooks. - Once you’ve “planted” an idea, you can tend to it and see what nutrients it needs. - Mo Willems explains in (quoted in [[Kleon, Austin - 2024 - Idea Gardens]]):![[Kleon, Austin - 2024 - Idea Gardens#^8d4f39|clean]] - This is *different* from digital gardening tends to refer specifically to hypertext. Ideas in an idea garden don’t need to be linked or published. This is a **private garden**. - However, like a digital garden, this approach also [[{2.2a1} a digital garden is a collection of linked ideas that encourages curious exploration|encourages playful exploration]]. - Seeds can even be combined for [[{5.1a} idea sex]] — or, in this metaphor, *idea grafting*??