This marks the beginning of my transition to v3 of my digital garden.
Some important considerations:
- I needed something easier to work with and had the potential to solve a lot of hierarchical challenges I faced in the first 2 versions. Quartz delivered on these well, and obsidian as a product has matured well over the last three years.
- Quartz’s graph view seems to be more functional than the one that is present in the jekyll based garden on which v1 was created on.
- My focus on how the garden should behave has changed considerably as I have other systems in place now to collect references and process them for other short-term writing projects.
- I really like the idea of fortifying the digital garden philosophy with “fruit” elements, where the seed that gets planted over time grows into a sapling to a tree and then finally produces evergreens and fruits.
Next steps
- Create a good starting page. Contextual and easy to navigate.
- Create a robust IA for topic exploration. While the forest analogy works for me as the owner of the forest, but for a casual visitor, the garden approach is more accessible.