digital gardening is a squishy concept

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There is no real/agreed-upon definition for a digital garden. Instead, there is a certain flavor of note-taking and blog publishing that is associated with the term. An aura, if you will.

Like dark academia or cottagecore, digital gardening is an internet aesthetic for nerds, knowledge workers, and internet philosophers and thus has fuzzy edges.

I argue that modern zettelkasten is digital gardening, but that since all definitions of Zettelkasten are speculative and many note taking systems are over-formalized, I find it is more precise to use the term "digital garden" for the precise reason that it is less precise in its description.

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Created 2025-03-17 Last Modified 2025-04-15