(2020-12-31) Rosano Digital Garden

Rosano on Digital gardens. In 2020 a movement formed towards quiet personal spaces for writing on the Internet, with various names such as digital garden, personal wiki, or public notes.

I consider this the technology-centric path towards Paulo Friere's biblioteca comunitária (community library), which was an effort to increase literacy in rural communities and give their members the skills to document, immortalize, share knowledge and cultural practices.

It will be more potent when it transforms from personal to collective spaces so that people can write together. (parallel writing)

Some examples might include Andy Matuschak, Hundred Rabbits, Maggie Appleton, Mental Nodes.

Hyperdraft is a text-focused tool that aids in the creation of these spaces. See Gardens made with Hyperdraft for examples.