[Weekend Drop] Digital Gardening w/ Maggie Appleton

I cohosted a Clubhouse chat with Maggie on Digital Gardening - what it is, how it came about, and how we can do it!

Show Notes

Maggie and swyx hosted a Clubhouse chat this weekend on Digital Gardens. Here are show notes for ongoing conversations so you can dig in further!

• Maggie’s garden: https://maggieappleton.com/ 
• Swyx’s garden: https://www.swyx.io/ideas, http://github.com/sw-yx/spark-joy (and other repos)

Comments and extra questions welcome!

## Recording

YouTube Recording Here and Commentable Transcript is Here!

This podcast audio was automatically edited for pauses and filler words via Descript. It gets a little choppy about 45mins in, but otherwise seems ok?

## Things we talked about

• Nikita’s Everything I Know garden: https://wiki.nikitavoloboev.xyz/
• Maggie's list of Digital Gardeners: https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners
• Penn Course on the Literature of Success: https://apps.wharton.upenn.edu/syllabi/?course=LGST227 
• Devon Zuegel on Epistemic Statuses: https://devonzuegel.com/post/epistemic-statuses-are-lazy-and-that-is-a-good-thing 
• Digital Garden Terms of Service: https://www.swyx.io/digital-garden-tos 
• Neil Postman: 
  • The Medium is the Metaphor: https://people.wou.edu/~visuanod/visuano_amusing_ourselves_to_death.pdf 
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amusing_Ourselves_to_Death 
• Building A Second Brain: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/ 
• Andy Matuschak: https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes 
  • Gatsby Theme Andy: https://github.com/aravindballa/gatsby-theme-andy 
• Transclusion: https://maggieappleton.com/transcopyright-dreams
• Nonlinear tools for thought:
  • Roam of course :)
  • Muse App https://museapp.com/
  • Kosmik App https://lithium.paris/ 
• Google Docs as Collaborative Digital Gardens
  • Chris Paik’s Frameworks Google Doc (tweet, doc) has ongoing comments that help shape the garden
  • Swyx on Webmentions: https://www.swyx.io/twitter-metacommentary/ 
• Swyx Three Strikes Rule: https://www.swyx.io/three-strikes/ 
• Tiago Forte on Progressive Summarization: https://fortelabs.co/blog/progressive-summarization-a-practical-technique-for-designing-discoverable-notes/
• Drawing tools: https://excalidraw.com/, https://miro.com/, https://figma.com/ 
• How To Create Luck: https://swyx.io/create_luck 
• Lisa Hardy’s Hyperfine Village concept

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