To maintain your Mind Garden, you can iterate through the following phases:
- Researching: Looking for new seeds that you want to plant into your garden.
- Rephrasing: Making the seeds your own. Generation effect
- Relate: Connect new ideas them together
- Revisit: Review the notes regularly
- Optional step: Sharing ideas with other people This are basically the same phases as Second brain
Key principles
- Trust your Default mode network. Give your mind space and time to wander
- Think in maps. Try to connect ideas together
- Combine Ideas together. Make it like a lego playground. In reviews, ask yourself how you can chain ideas together.
- Optional: Learn in public. Share with other people. Like Obsidian publish or Quartz
You can also use Time Blocking to do the mind garden activity you prefer. Based on your energy level, you can switch your Modes of thinking or what Type of writer you are.
Deciding on what to write
Maggie Appleton published a site with just a headline and some buzzwords, and haphazered sentences. With a link to her twitter saying something like: “if you want me to finish this, bug me on twitter”
Digital garden can also contain Digital garden campfires