Favorite Gardens
Mental model for organizing the garden
Based on Cameron Sea’s mental model for personal organization, I’d like to move towards organizing things using the universal model of organization.
🔖 Intake
- Bookmarks, Google Keep, to triage and file later
- Started using Notion to keep inspiration and annotate websites
🧭 Compass
- Futures writing — all strategic planning, journalling/retrospectives
🎨 Studio
- Or lab, in essence it’s a place where all your working files are, or active projects.
- This could just be the current project board that exists
🏗 Areas
- Projects
- Recess
🌱 Interests
- Should be 10-15 interests tops
- My current explorations
- Business in freelance vs studio
- 3D illustrations (Blender and Cinema4D)
- Creative coding (matter.js, p5.js, three.js)
- TouchDesigner
- eCommerce templates (webflow)
- Passive Income
- This feels reflective of the digital garden the most
📸 Collections
- These are things like music, books, photos, past projects et al. It’s okay to have them in separate spaces
- Dropbox, Spotify, Goodreads? Google Photos/photos
🏛 Reference
- Literally just used as reference, not necessarily a frequently used section, almost like a sitemap or seeing the dewy decimal system in a library. Just for reference so it’s easier to find things.
- Better to have a wide tree than a deep tree so it’s easier to find things at a later time — the path that you come up with now might be very different from how you think of it later.
- 1-3 levels (maybe 4) at most
- This is just Notion’s navigation IMO — this could be further built out as a page
📥 Storage
- Receipts, invoices, tax records, legal documents
- Dropbox
🔒 Vault
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Sensitive things like passwords, passports
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1Password
References
How to set up your own digital garden
Building a Second Brain: The Definitive Introductory Guide
Progressive Summarization: A Practical Technique for Designing Discoverable Notes - Forte Labs WIP: the case for learning in public
A Mental Model for Personal Organization (Part I)
The PARA Method: The Simple System for Organizing Your Digital Life in Seconds