Mar 16, 2026
A digital garden is a personal website that is a collection of notes linked to one another. Navigating this website is a bit like wandering in a garden, taking whatever path your heart pleases and ending up in random places.
It is the opposite to what is expected of websites today - a steady unending feed of content. If social media and blogs are rivers and streams, a digital garden is like, well, a garden.
I love the idea of a digital garden, but I love even more the idea of a digital forest. This "forest" is made up of plants that are individual notes. All of these notes are connected to one another, and any can be reached from any other.
I prefer using the term forest for two reasons:
I struggled to build a digital garden for the longest time because I was putting all sorts of limitations on it. This one has no limits. It even has a blog inside it. I plan to add my travel diary and photography to this forest as well. It is a digital piece of land that grows indefinitely, with my interests.
A garden metaphor implies gardening. Tending to your notes, making sure they connect and grow over time, making sure things are neatly laid out and made sense.
A forest just keeps growing where there is space. And digital space extends out indefinitely, allowing this digital forest to grow indefinitely. If I can keep adding things to this forest, I can have something I will actually use and publish to.