tending the mind garden
This mind-garden is a place to think, to spill, to capture. The tools support a meandering rabbit hole of notes and links - diving deeper is always encouraged.
I try to 'tend' the garden often and freely - give the seeds of ideas a fresh pot and loose dirt, water them as the leaves start to signal. You can extend the metaphor forever - mostly I just come putz around in here, with no need direction if I'm not feeling it.
Tending the garden can mean anything, but here are some activities anyway:
- Write freely in the daily
note (
org-roam-dailies-find-today), journal.org, or the projects.org hammock - Punt things from the
journal or hammock into the daily file (
russ/org-refile-to-daily-note) - Read/write/edit notes anywhere
- add content
- add more text links to new/existing pages
- add tags
- Publish notes
As of this writing, nothing is published, but we'll get there
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It's been years, but we've finally published this mind garden.
towards the publishing pipeline - intentional posts
It feels like the core of publishing is supporting drafting as an activity.
I hoped for a while that publishing would be an easy after thought, and that I'd write at random in here and be ok just spamming it all into the web at some point.
These days, I'm thinking there should be some intentional posts - some throughline that is a real piece - something that I pick out and write, review, and then pubish via some big green button.
Those posts can link to exiting notes - those linked notes can get dragged online via the posts. But the posts are ultimately the thing to share, and the notes are just a garden of footnotes and random connections.
I think before the notes get published, they should get reviewed - i.e. I want to read the diff of every note before it goes live.
this is an old note! but i'm back mofos
how often are notes in here visited? i suppose git should know where's my git history side-bar, like the org-roam-buffer something that shows the layers of commits under the note i'm on
for most it's probably EOD TUESDEE or something silly. Or some of the major scars - global find-replace for dupe org ids, that kind of thing.
> Nothing to see here, just move along.
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Hi! My name is Russ!
I make open-source games in Godot, and I build dev tools in Clojure.
Neil Gaiman's term for all the things you read and write that are just going into the yard, waiting to help something bloom in 2 or 3 years.
Reminds of the mind-garden / knowledge graph,
and the idea of 'tending' it for a while
Part of what's hard about just streaming is.... I want to create a plan for it, i kind of feel bad winging it but i think i'd self-organize rather quickly
it would be easier to get started if i could see all my notes
some way to review and read them, to assess the garden
maybe treat the garden like the chess mistakes the notes are like commits, just needing review how to organize well enough to review it all? re-read the garden. a mind-tend session.