Mind Garden Legend (how this system works)
A goal of a digital garden is to enable progressive creation, also known as Cultivating Knowledge. To wit, Digital Gardens typically have three tiers:
- 🌱 seeds (ideas)
- 🌳 trees (expanded ideas)
- 🍎 fruits (edited/finalized/published work)
While I love that distinction, I also love the concept of atomic and molecular note taking, of simplifying ideas to their essence and developing them by linking them together. Here is my system:
- 🔴 atoms (single concepts)
- 🟡 molecules (linked concepts)
- 🔵 alloys (carefully crafted concepts)
I use my digital garden to automatically sort notes with these categories into their respective inboxes:
Each inbox is created using the Dataview Plugin using a specific query to populate the inbox, augmented by the auto-move plugin.
There is no hard and fast rule for how these categories work. I try to limit single concepts to "atoms", including concepts I learn from other people. If I have taken an atom and added my own originality to it, I tag the note as molecule.
If I have taken the molecule and expanded on it, I upgrade the note to alloy.
I will be expanding on these concepts in much more detail as I explain my templates and how they all work together to build my Public Personal Knowledge Management System.
If you are interested in my templates of these tiers for your own digital garden, they are available to my Hypersub members. If you click on the links below and you are unable to view & download the template, you must first join my Hypersub community 🧭 🧠 ✨