I've been using my tags for this, building my research for each of my /books.
But, I have a few articles & listicles I want to create.
Those around what people write around a specific subject. Building the sources I want to cite as I figure out my own phrasing.
In the garden sense, it's building that garden of knowledge.
Colophon, my garden's name
I recently decided to name my garden—Colophon.
It's for a variety of reasons. But the ideas of portfolios, proof of work, case studies, archiving, independent websites, indie Internet, communities of Internet places and their own territories, etc.
Colophon is a geeky graphic design term for citing "how this thing was made." Historically originating from printing practices and the labor of publication.
I approach this in a similar way.
With my newsletter, Craft & Practice, it's about sharing updates around developing craft and practices. It's been semi-monthly, but this structure builds it up.
Tending
These are basically gardens defined by shared tags. I'd set a group of tags per a topic, and that garden grows as I fill it with more information. At some point it'd need to evolve and be collated into a specific story, or pieced together into an article, chapter, essay, etc.
Articles
Listicles
I really enjoy the idea of listicles, and how they're a really great reference and resource for people. I have a few different groups of tags that I'd use for generating fodder for these listicles (of which, I already have quite a bit; need to carve out time to write them out):
- tools
- tools I use
- css
- web dev
- blogrolls
- newsletters
- podcasts
- best of
- fonts
Books
How I've grown, in terms of the longer-view of writing my books, it's going to take awhile before I have the capacity to focus on developing these. Therefore, I'll be growing them more organically, creating the references, journal entries, etc. and tagging them with the book title. Then, on the /books/ garden, I have each of the books and their respective fill of resources to pull from. It's a bit like Building in Public—well, more than a bit, it is. I haven't seen it done in this way though, with that intentionality as applied to writing, digital gardening, etc.
This is a way I've seen a lot of books written. Specifically books of essays, journals, etc. An individual may have written at a specific publication, or many publications over the years, and compiles them into a book of essays. This is that sort of path, with regular publishing and upkeep. But these resources grow over time. So, it's less "write chapter by chapter each book; outline and structure it and develop the story that way" and more organically emergent.
Wired for Design
- hyperlexia
- aphantasia
- nonlinearity
- monotropism
- books
- typography
Move slow—and; bake, things
- recipes for front end development
- moving with intention
- a place to collect all the riffs of "move fast and break things"
- politics around DOGE and how it doesn't actually work
- history of bread, baking, and the unifying aspect of it
- degrowth and sustainability
Introduction to Works Councils
- labor
- ways of organizing
- ways of employee representation around the world
- workers rights
- tech and organizing
- unions, relationships
- example ways of working
- differentiation of labor across europe vs. the states (my experience)