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The mind of me

Wellcome, wellcome, wellcome. This is my digital garden, a place when I store memories, thoughts, knowledge, theories, essays, and everything in between. This is a very personal space, not to be taken as a technical guide (yet), but instead a place where anyone can explore the various islands of knowledge that I have built up throughout my life.

Dead Links

You will find links that go nowhere, half written notes, as well as notes that tell me that they need to be written. Thats just how it is because the real prize is the links we make along the way.

Why?

I started my zettelkasten journey in late 2025, and before long I had a respectable body of knowledge which the best feature of, is how it frees up a substantial portion of my mind to think.

The mind is for having ideas, not holding them -David Allen

But the freedom of the zettelkasten method comes at a certain cost. I tend to compile knowledge quickly, without having the time (or motivation) to refine it. This diminishes the value of the Zettelkasten method, where the goal of the system is to make you interact with your notes as much as possible, and that your notes should become a building block for a thesis or an essay that is their culmination.

This is how a digital garden can complete the Zettelkasten Method. Where Luhman Zettelkasten used his notes to facilitate his research, I use my notes to facilitate this garden.

This system helps me:

1. Be more intentional with my writing
2. Get incentivised to review and refine my notes
3. Get my refined thoughts out there in the world, for those how care.

Integrating this digital garden with my existing obsidian slipbox is nothing original, but it is something I am really happy with.

Read more here Obsidian slipbox into a digital garden

How content is organized around here

Adhering to the Zettelkasten method, we don’t use folders here. Instead, everything is navigated through the search function, internal links, maps of content, and the graph view (if that’s your thing).

There are three main categories:

1. Maps of Contents
2. Atomic Notes
3. Blog Posts

You can start exploring things through Maps of Contents, these notes are the “big” Atomic Notes, they serve as parents of the Atomic notes and help tie them together.

While AtomicNotes is my slipbox, Blogs are for long-form, fully refined essays that I deem suitable for a more structured reading format.

For example:

Maps of Content:
|- AWS
|- Python

AtomicNotes
|- RDS -- child of AWS
|- Lambda -- child of AWS
|- EC2 -- child of AWS

Blogs
|- "How to develop a simple data pipeline using AWS RDS and Lambda"

AtomicNotes is where concepts float around, the Blog is where those concepts get weaved together into an essay.