Changelog

• 2024-04-07 - introduced changelog, added Maggie Appleton’s garden as inspiration, introduced historical notes
• 2024-05-20 - Added paragraph about my grandparent’s garden

Note

I will try to use the great Micro.publish-Plugin to publish some notes that I want to grow over time. These notes are different from other blog posts in the sense that they aren’t staying the same over time, but reflect my current thinking. All of the notes that fall under the umbrella of the digital garden will be part of the DigitalGarden category and page.

My Grandparents have beautiful garden that in my mind is as beautiful as it gets: A small refuge outside out the city of Berlin where they spend many weekends and whole summers when they retired. So much love went into this place. And at the same time it’s a relaxing oasis. A comforting place a place that connects coziness with nature.

How does this connect to the notion of a digitial garden?

Historical notes

• According to this Mark Bernstein - which I know of from Tinderbox, a Mac app, for a creating networked notes, long before Obsidian et. al. - came up with the term in 1998.

My main point of inspiration is Maggie Appleton’s Digital Garden.

Changelog

• 2024-04-07 - introduced changelog

Note

I today had a chance to say out loud a thought I’ve had for a while: It’s sometimes easier to love something that is far away and maybe even unreachable. I have an easier time being German in Finnland than I ever had in Germany. I love watching sports like baseball or ice hockey but do not like the thought of visiting a stadium. Most of the podcasts I listen to are from the US or Australia. I guess that the thing of affection being far away make it somehow easier to consume: its less likely to show its wrinkles and warts, either because I can’t see them - because I’m not a native and therefore blissfully ignorant, especially if I’m physically far away also - or because I’m not living the day to day life embedded in a certain culture because of physical distance.