Digital garden — Fran Carlos

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On digital gardening

My digital garden is where I consciously tend to my curiosities. I curate and synthesize interesting bits across media and minds.

After gardening digitally for over 3+ years, I’ve developed a system so simple, it works —so simple, it serves me, not the other way around.

Resources:

✿ how to make a digital garden: a beginner's guide
✿ after digital gardening for 3+ years: what i wish i knew and wouldn’t do (+ simple set up!)
✿ Soon! Digital gardening workshop

Questions...

How do we make digital gardening something more than the metaphorical?
Where does digital gardening fall short? How can we make it more creative and effective? ( I.e., how do we make sure we’re actually making something of the information we’re collecting, not just logging and abandoning pieces. )

Cute Girl Garden

( My former digital garden, made with Jekyll by Maxime Vaillancourt)

“At this point, we’ve gotten really great at ‘writing it down’ We’ve been trained to take notes, snag photos, and add things to our bookmarks so we don’t forget about them. The more important question that nobody has bothered to ask is what to do with it all. Components are ultimately the building blocks of a story, project, or idea, but accumulation means nothing without connection. What are the footprints of your life adding up to?”

— Alex Tan on Common Discourse