Garden and the Gazebo

  • My current setup for this site I’m calling the Garden and the Gazebo
  • The Garden is what you’re looking at and browsing: inter-linked notes, the portion of my Second Brain that I keep public.
  • The Gazebo is where I keep my private notes. A day-to-day Worklog, TODOs, notes from meetings, and various notes to self.

  • Garden

    • I haven’t used my root bmannconsulting domain for things for a while. The Archive has 12 years of lightly pruned blog posts. I ran a separate wiki for a while, mostly about food and travel, but it was very useful for notes on ChromeOS and other non-food things, so the Garden is back to being a wiki-like interface for notes, concepts, and other snippets that aren’t blog posts.
    • Calling it a garden because it’s organic, messy, sprawling, and where things grow. It’s also an area that people can “walk around in”, much like a physical garden.
    • Wikis have fallen out of fashion these days, although their concepts in tools like Notion are perhaps bigger than ever. “wiki gardening” is a term that I’ve used and an activity I’ve practiced in the past, so that fits, too.
    • Ton Zijlstra wrote about his own digital notes on his blog as Planting the Garden of Forking Paths.1
    • Processing is where I’m stashing articles I intend to quote and keep and other snippets of information. I’ve got Working Copy on my phone, so I can copy / paste information and check it in. Right now, I have to get back to my computer to publish it, which isn’t ideal.

  • Gazebo

    • Maybe locked garden shed would be another analogy, but Gazebo is what popped into my mind and what I’m running with.
    • I am mostly in the Gazebo, using LogSeq, day-to-day.
    • I can’t seamlessly move from private to public.

  • Blog posts vs Notes

    • What’s the difference between a blog post and a note? When I say it like that, it seems simple. But, this note is a great example. I’m writing it for myself — to figure out what I think — and I’m writing it in public, so I can share it and point people at it when they ask about my setup.
    • But a blog post would never make it public in this shape. I’m playing with using the #WIP tag — for myself, so I can know which notes need some more work. Which is kind of like the #Processing page, too. Lots of loose ends, but in a good way.

Footnotes

  1. Yes, that refers to the short story by Borges (Wikipedia). ↩

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