This garden is the EXACT OPPOSITE of organized. Just saying. It contains random notes loosely filed into categories and tagged. But that disorganization is what makes it beautiful, isn’t it?
A quote from Jacky Zhao, creator of Quartz:
The problem with the file cabinet is that it focuses on efficiency of access and interoperability rather than generativity and creativity. Thinking is not linear, nor is it hierarchical. In fact, not many things are linear or hierarchical at all. Then why is it that most tools and thinking strategies assume a nice chronological or hierarchical order for my thought processes?
The ideal tool for thought for me would embrace the messiness of my mind, and organically help insights emerge from chaos instead of forcing an artificial order. A rhizomatic, not arboresecent, form of note taking.
That’s what this garden aims to do. Capture the messy way in which my brain works.