a digital garden of interlinked notes
Glasshouse
Slow, public notes on note-taking, memory, and tending ideas. Nothing here is finished — that's the point. Notes link to one another, carry a growth status, and get re-tended a little at a time. Wander by following links, search below, or open the map.
Settled — densely linked, something I’d defend.
Actively tended — reworked, still moving.
A seedling — rough and unfinished, on purpose.
Recently tended
The notes I’ve watered most lately.
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Tending notes
How this garden actually works — the planted / growing / evergreen statuses, and the weekly habit of watering a few old notes instead of perfecting any one.
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Spaced repetition
Reviewing something at widening intervals, right as you're about to forget it — the most efficient way known to move a fact into long-term memory.
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Evergreen notes
Notes written to be developed and reused across projects, rather than thrown away after one use. The single highest-leverage habit in this whole garden.
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Backlinks
When note A links to note B, B should learn that A exists. That quiet two-way awareness is what turns a folder of files into a network.
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The map
How everything connects. Hover a note to light up its neighbourhood.
Full index
Every note, grouped by how grown-up it is.
Evergreen 4
- Backlinks When note A links to note B, B should learn that A exists. That quiet two-way awareness is what turns a folder of files into a network. 2 backlinks
- Digital gardens A site that grows like a garden — topic-first, perpetually unfinished, and proud of it — instead of a blog's reverse-chronological stream. 3 backlinks
- Evergreen notes Notes written to be developed and reused across projects, rather than thrown away after one use. The single highest-leverage habit in this whole garden. 4 backlinks
- Spaced repetition Reviewing something at widening intervals, right as you're about to forget it — the most efficient way known to move a fact into long-term memory. 1 backlinks
Growing 4
- Atomic notes One idea per note — small enough to link, recombine, and reuse. The unit of a healthy garden. 3 backlinks
- Learning in public Doing your learning where others can see it — notes, questions, half-wrong drafts — and letting that openness pull knowledge toward you. 2 backlinks
- Tending notes How this garden actually works — the planted / growing / evergreen statuses, and the weekly habit of watering a few old notes instead of perfecting any one. 5 backlinks
- Zettelkasten Niklas Luhmann's slip-box — a network of linked index cards that he credited with an absurdly productive career. The ancestor of every modern note network. 2 backlinks