Summary
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A digital garden is a knowledge hub for collating, documenting, and sharing ideas in a nonlinear manner, allowing for continuous refinement and idea connection and giving opportunities for feedback and contribution to the wider community
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Digital gardens are formatted as markdown and quartz has an easy-to-follow set-up process, or alternatively users can utilise other tools such as Tiddly Wiki, Obsidian PKM, or Roam Research
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This article details the three stages of digital gardens, in which ideas are first planted as seeds, grown into trees, and then harvested as fruits, in which they are refined to be published as essays, videos, and eventually books
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The benefits of a digital garden include the ability to visualize ideas and see connections between them, the opportunity to continuously revise and update ideas, and the ability to share work with others and get feedback on it