Atlas held up the heavens, just as my digital garden organizes my thoughts!

What are you talking about?

The digital garden is basically what this is: it’s a collection of text files organized by a nifty little program called Quartz (the link is at the footer of the page), which translates Markdown files into HTML—the language of the web! Then, the files are uploaded to my server, and you find yourself reading this page wondering what on earth this is.

Not a traditional blog

You’d be right to think that this isn’t like a traditional blog. Traditionally, blogs are like databases: a program on your server keeps track of your posts, sorts them all by date, and you read it kinda like a newsletter.

Why not just do a newsletter?

Well, I did, but honestly I got a bit tired of the Sunday sermon style of writing after three years. Many of the thoughts from that period can be found here in some form or another. At any rate, I made the change because I feel this is more interesting. You don’t just get to see what I write, but you can see my process, too, as I go from scraps to scribbles to syntheses to more ambitious works of writing than I ever would have attempted in blog format. And for me, I get a way to organize notes, quotes, and ideas that otherwise just sit in my notes app getting lost in a fury of text. This way, it’s easier for me to see connections by themes, which will (fingers-crossed) bear fruit when the time to harvest comes.

How do I get around?

I’m glad you asked! There’s a small blurb on my homepage that explains how things are organized broadly-speaking, but using this folder (the “Atlas”), you can get a sense of how tagging, topics, and the graph works.

Just shoot me an email if you have any questions: author @ mydarkmaterials.ca