A digital garden is a personal site organized around ideas rather than chronology. Posts are not "published" once and then frozen — they grow, get rewritten, link to each other, and sometimes die.

What makes it different from a blog#

A blog is a stack of dated posts. A garden is a graph. The unit is the note, not the post; the connective tissue is backlinks and wikilinks.

	Blog	Garden
Unit	Post	Note
Order	Chronological	Topical
State	Finished	Always growing
Discovery	Latest first	Follow links

Why it works#

• Writing things down is the cheapest form of thinking.
• Connecting two notes is more valuable than writing a third.
• The pressure to "finish" kills more writing than it ever produces.

See also: Andy Matuschak's notes and Maggie Appleton on digital gardens.

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