Max's Digital Garden

This PKM (personal knowledge management) system will collect and do the following for me:

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How to use this site

You can navigate multiple ways:

Use the navigation bar to browse pages divided by level of depth or information source. The homepage describes what each of these sections is.
Use the search bar to see if there is anything on this site that interests you based on your own keywords.
Select a tag when you see it to browse all pages.
Start with a path from the homepage

Digital garden: Obsidian, GitHub, Netlify
Notes and record keeping: DrawNote, Google drive, are.na, paper journals
- Seasons bingo journal
- Hobonichi weekly planner
- Art journal
Life tracking: Daylio, Finch, personal budget, Google calendar
Life sharing: Neocities sites, Maxwrites, Letterboxd, Storygraph, MyAlbum, Shapchat (private), are.na

Use the 0 (zero) folder for life stuff. this is all private.
Use the digital garden folder for drafts and creating empty pages/ideas.
Move items to the garden when they are ready to publish to the site. (These items may be in progress, publish once you feel no anxiety about sharing a half-formed thought.)
Once a month or as needed, publish via Digital Garden plugin (plugin website).

This stuff will probably never see the public.

Folder structure:

daily (daily notes)
health (keep up with meds, personal appointments, etc)
ideas (all files that are just a brain fart of ideas)
responsibilities (taking care of my home, car, etc)
seasons (seasonal based to do, notes, projects, reflection, some may move to the garden)
templates (my templates for my obsidian setup)
zenny (taking care of my cat, appointments, blood work results, etc)

this folder is also where I keep

my homepage, which loads when I open Obsidian and thanks to the homepage plugin I can have a separate one on mobile vs desktop (plugin website)
a snippets file which holds my cheat sheet for markdown and other script.

Items that enter the digital garden

add tags below file name
the title uses h1
other headers use h2, h3 etc.
if you are adding a previously created file, add created date at the bottom under a horizontal rule
ideally, the file uses an alphanumeric, but not required quite yet.

subfolders:

notes from sources (books, podcast episodes, articles, etc)
- 1 per book/thing, write quotes and notes
- birds & butterflies - thoughts from external sources

fragments - loose notes, thoughts, ideas, etc. fragments are sometimes drafts which become notes or trees.
- 1 per thing
- flowers - ideas that grow when it rains

same folder structure as above, including:

synthesis - connections between notes & fragments, reviews of sources, etc - ideally connecting different things and referencing them like in school.
- trees - ideas have taken root
- stage of tree growth = how formulated an idea it is vs scratch notes still
- (like animal crossing)

Items are ready for the garden website when:

Use tags to index keywords or search terms based on topics that interest me, format: # topic/something
Use tags as status indicators for quick a quick list of posts (eg, books in progress, currently writing, so I can pull them up easily)
Tag structure
- topic/
- max/
- path/ (entry points to content)
Use bookmarks for stuff I use in everyday life (eg grocery list, to do)

Diary entries (insert into notes as needed)
- Anger diary, therapy survey (part of my self-therapy practice)
- Book report (questions about a book I just finished)
- EOY and Decade questions (from Steph Ango)
- Now (inserts template text for my Now page)
Template pages
- Book page (uses the Book Search plugin to create a page with metadata for a specific book - plugin website)
- Seasonal to do (I create one each season, this has the categories set up for me)
Formatting help for consistency
- External link (drops template text in for me to edit)
- Quote (template text)

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