- Most blog posts are sorted chronologically. Of course, you can also organize them with categories or tags on a blog. But in the end, they still get sorted by time. It is also hard to split categories into fine-grained pieces.
- Unless you plan a series with a specific intention and write it that way, chronological order confuses the people exploring it. I have had the experience of visiting the blog of someone who writes well, only to spend a long time hunting for posts on the topic I cared about, because there was such an overwhelming amount of them.
- That is why I think a digital garden like this is needed if you want to organize writing according to context. Of course, the digital garden approach has not yet spread widely, nor has it been proven useful to readers. But I think it has more potential than a blog that simply lists posts in chronological order.
- Since posts are not sorted by time, I don't have to push myself to publish on a regular schedule. I can post or revise whenever I have room to. That's because I can arrange my writing however I want, whenever I want. I also write without worrying about spelling. In any case, what matters is to keep planting thoughts and connecting them. Maybe this is a way of personal branding?
- When things are connected, writing is less likely to evaporate.
- Some posts may contain thoughts that differ from what I think now. Please check the creation and revision dates, and keep in mind that an older post may differ from my current views.
- When I write a note only for myself, I don't put much effort into it (and that seems fine), but the moment I try to write something for the digital garden, a bit of effort inevitably goes in. Probably less than for a blog, though. Anyway, from the perspective of writing consistently, a digital garden works well. It can serve as a daily workout for writing, like the WoD in CrossFit.
- Actually, this is also a contradiction. The moment you write something public, effort goes in, and since you can't put in just the right amount of effort, it ends up becoming just a blog. Then the only differences from a plain blog are the connections between posts and the ability to revise them at any time.