Thought process on publishing your "personal" knowledge management

After some research, I think I have a better understanding about the representation style of PKM/Obsidian Publish vs traditional blog post.

I think this illustration did a pretty good job.

On the spectrum of Chaos <–> Orders, Digital Garden or PKM sits somewhere between private notes (daily personal journal) and blog post. And the reason it has its style is because it optimizing the nature of exploratory and its non-linear, non-chronological of a digital garden.

And the more I think about it, the more the term Digital Garden here make more sense. As a garden, people can come into your garden through different entry points (MOC/Search…) and from that they can wander through different patch of land where some plants are fully mature, well-pruned, Evergreen,… some are still in their seeding, budding state. And it’s for you, the visitor, decide to navigate freely this environment. Sure it can be disorienting, easy to get lost, but it could also be rewarding/refreshing.

The original blog post is from here: A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

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