I want to create a way of having a three level relational naming schema for my digital garden.
Level One
I want to have first level pages for:
- about: a linking to everything. This would be the
starter-packsarea. - design
- leadership
- services
- work
- management
- principles
- travel
- photos
- links
- library
- essays
- articles
- studies
- tools
- product
- feeds
- talks
/garden/for writings/books/
And periods of times:
/nowfor timeline/pastfor backwards facing/futuredefines the future I want my life to work towards. A future-casting of beliefs.
For navigating:
- search
- tags
- archive
- starter-packs
For community/connection:
- webrings
- rss
- guestbook
- contact
For concept:
- garden: writing
- compost: reading
- play: experiment
- stream: where all the feeds meet
Level Two
I want to have second-level pages that would work as a "child content type" for all of these first level (for whenever that sort is needed):
/lvl-1/principles/lvl-1/books/lvl-1/links/lvl-1/experience/lvl-1/story/lvl-1/history/lvl-1/notes/lvl-1/quotes
-/lvl-1/feed
There would also be topic specific: travel/$place
Level 3
Then. There's another taxanomical grouping: lvl-1/lvl-2/lvl-3.
- `/lvl-1/lvl-2/details'
/lvl-1/lvl-2/feed
And specific per topic: travel/$city/$business or /lvl-1/notes/quotes.
How it's evolving
These days, I've spent a lot of time on my website.
But today I made a breakthrough. For the first time, I home-cooked an app that I can share, directly to my website, from my CMS.
Using a progressive web app, i can share via my share panel on my phone!
I understood the power of this CMS and what it could enable, and after nearly 10 years of this being my "go-to CMS to use and learn in...I've finally gotten to a point where I'm "getting it" and "building something of my own".
The thing about POSSE—post once and syndicate elsewhere—is that there are many places to post and many different reasons for content. If I could post what we I wanted from how I'm organizing and seeing evolution of things, that will be the thing.
My Digital Garden: Colophon
My garden's purpose is to curate, collate, cultivate; distribute, share, connect—knowledge.
To show the proof in the pudding. Organically developing ingredients, recipes, and expertise in public. To bring the receipts.
To show how it's made.
To reveal the process, the tool, the human behind the artifact.
That's the anthropology side of things. The history. Society. Community. Also a tradition of typography, letterpresses. It's also the practice associated with words and all the many combinations and shapes they can take. How there yielded. How they're connected.
I also feel its a need. The whole "establishing credibility". Then think there's the whole "Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime" sort of thing.
That's the information science, systems-seeking, organizing mind-path...existing in the messy, excitable bashing of electrons that become lightning storms of creativity. And sometimes: it's a slow rumble.
The thing about gardens: they need watering. They need intake. Hence, the /stream.
This is the intake, and evidence of just...making things and the things that bring energy & focus.