A garden is a place to return to. Notes can begin as questions, grow with new reading, and sometimes become longer essays. This page is a small guide to how this one works.

A little room to grow

A seedling is a new idea or a short note. Growing means a piece has been developed but may still change. Evergreen marks something that has been worked on enough to be useful beyond its first moment.

These are descriptions of a note’s shape, not scores for its importance.

Connections, not just a timeline

Ideas are easier to find again when they have neighbours. Topics and links bring related notes together; a note may sit in more than one place.

A useful way to picture this is a small graph:

G=(V,E)G = (V, E)

Here, V can stand for ideas and E for the links between them. It is just a sketch of how this garden is organised, not a research result.1

Reading and writing here

Notes may contain code, mathematical notation, references, and diagrams when they help explain an idea. Every entry has its own address, so it can be shared or revisited.

A small convention

A new note can start with a simple description of its form and maturity:

kind: note
maturity: seedling

Footnotes

  1. The graph is an illustration of the garden’s structure. ↩