garden

Andy Matuschak-style notes

· seedling · by hand

The aesthetic and discipline I’m trying to borrow:

  • Atomicity. One idea per note. If it’s growing two ideas, fork it.
  • Concept-oriented titles. “Atomic notes resist drift” not “May 14 thoughts.”
  • Aggressive linking. Connections are the substrate. A note with no backlinks is suspicious.
  • Visible growth states. Roughness is a feature, not embarrassment.
  • No publish boundary. Writing IS the published thing.

What I’m NOT copying:

  • The stacking-panes UI. Beautiful, but for someone reading my own notes back to me, a single column is fine.
  • The exhaustive “evergreen notes should be…” discipline. I want to be able to write a 200-word “here’s what I tried today” note without theorizing.

See: why-a-garden-not-a-blog.

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