Nerding hard on digital gardens, personal wikis, and experimental...
Maggie Appleton@Mappletons
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Dec 30, 2025
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Nerding hard on digital gardens, personal wikis, and experimental knowledge systems with @_jonesian today.
We have an epic collection going, check these out...
1. @tomcritchlow's Wikifolders: tomcritchlow.com/wiki/
We have an epic collection going, check these out...
1. @tomcritchlow's Wikifolders: tomcritchlow.com/wiki/
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@_jonesian @tomcritchlow 2. Buster Benson's "Piles" and "Codex" @buster
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@_jonesian @tomcritchlow @buster 3. @nateliason 's Notes and Book Summaries
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@_jonesian @tomcritchlow @buster @nateliason 4. @chrisbiscardi 's Digital Garden (rainbow style!)
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@_jonesian @tomcritchlow @buster @nateliason @chrisbiscardi 5. @andy_matuschak 's layered, bi-directionally linked system of "Evergreen notes"
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@_jonesian @tomcritchlow @buster @nateliason @chrisbiscardi @andy_matuschak 6. The Open Transclude UX pattern from @tobyshorin - subpixel.space/entries/open-t…
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7. @aengusmcmillin 's @RoamResearch -like experiment with bidirectional links implemented in @gatsbyjs
Aengus McMillin@aengusmcmillin
Had an idea last night for a @gatsbyjs powered Public Brain. Managed to get a (very) basic version of it built for my site today! Inspired by @RoamResearch, already possible to (minus a few bugs) copy/paste from Roam and create a graph of notes on your site.
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@aengusmcmillin @RoamResearch @gatsbyjs 8. @wynlim 's thoughts on Designing a Self-directed Learning Network: winnielim.org/experiments/le…
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9. @joelhooks manifesto on Digital gardens > blogs: joelhooks.com/digital-garden
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@joelhooks 10. @gwern's sprawling, info-packed wiki with hover previews, TOCs, and a public change log
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@joelhooks @gwern 11. Speaking of hover previews, @JoshWComeau's experiment with Tippy.js this week is a fanstastic example of adding contextual layers to links -
x.com/JoshWComeau/st…
x.com/JoshWComeau/st…
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@joelhooks @gwern @JoshWComeau 12. Also related, @swyx's writing on Webmentions and Twitter as a "meta-commentary layer to the internet" follows this same vibe of bi-directional densely-linked knowledge across platforms - swyx.io/writing/twitte…
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13. To come back to @tomcritchlow for a moment, as far as I can tell from internet-history-digging they OG coined the term "digital garden" 🌱 and have a wonderful series of reflections on the concept here: tomcritchlow.com/blogchains/dig…
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14. Update on the historical origin!
Thanks to @tomcritchlow and @BillSeitz for the backstory insights
The linkbacks flow through Mike Caufield's "The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral"
hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the…
Which leads back to...
Thanks to @tomcritchlow and @BillSeitz for the backstory insights
The linkbacks flow through Mike Caufield's "The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral"
hapgood.us/2015/10/17/the…
Which leads back to...
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15. Mark Bernstein's 1998 essay / explorative experience "Hypertext Gardens" - eastgate.com/garden/
"Unplanned hypertext sprawl is wilderness: complex and interesting, but uninviting. Interesting things await us in the thickets."
❤️ This design aesthetic
"Unplanned hypertext sprawl is wilderness: complex and interesting, but uninviting. Interesting things await us in the thickets."
❤️ This design aesthetic
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16. Overdue addition to the list, but @swyx has an entire 'Digital Garden Terms of Service' agreement!
swyx.io/writing/digita…
A beautifully reflection on what we should expect as readers and gardeners - Epistemic disclosure, proper attribution, and the right to be wrong
swyx.io/writing/digita…
A beautifully reflection on what we should expect as readers and gardeners - Epistemic disclosure, proper attribution, and the right to be wrong
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@swyx 17. This collection has now matured into a full grown essay documenting the history of "digital gardening" as an ethos 🌲
maggieappleton.com/garden-history
maggieappleton.com/garden-history
