Digital Garden Club

15 Sep 2025 - 15 Sep 2025
Open in Logseq
    • A proposal for Protocol Symposium 2025
    • Problem

    • People are making personal digital gardens, which are roughly personal Wikis. There's a variety of tools being used, from Roam and similar graph-based PKMs to purely homegrown. These are very idiosyncratic (by design). They also suffer from a certain reception problem; outside users don't know how to read/navigate them.
    • Solutions

    • Garden/page registry

    • Garden (site) level: maintain a central registry of digital gardens, perhaps indexed by topic or other metadata, for findability
    • Some issues around topics, how do you decide two pages are about the same topic?
    • Scaling issues. Easy to imagine for a few hundered DGs, beyond that the usual issues emerge
    • Earlier notes

      • Level 0: just a simple dir, with some fields, and a form for people to submit
      • Level 1: Gather common pages and build page directories (like Twin Pages but maybe less of a hack)
      • Level 2: Let people curate the gardens they like, so login and user state
      • MetaGarden! I wonder if this centralization runs counter to the spirit of the thing
      • Way to monetize? Eh can't think of one. You could have some kind of pay-for-prominence scheme but that is dicey.
        • Ads for platforms would make sense I guess
    • ## Protocols

      • APIs for registration and retrieval.
    • Feed generator

    • A tool that monitors gardens for new or updated pages and generates a periodic chronological feed.
    • Protocol notes

    • Is this interesting for Protocol thinking?