• Most of us capture some form of raw notes — meeting notes, grocery lists, things we jot in the margins of whatever paper or envelope is on our desk. These are super personal notes that probably won’t be of interest to anyone.
• Some of us also publish polished notes in the form of essays, articles, or blogs. This is when the creative work is “done” and you’ve put out something you consider a “complete” piece of work.
• Digital gardens can fill the gap between these two.
• Per Le Cunff, Anne-Laure:

the notes in your digital garden are at the intersection of “too early to be shared widely” and “structured enough to warrant some constructive feedback.”

• I think this connects to the idea that we all have three voices: our thinking voice, speaking voice, and writing voice.
  • Maybe our raw notes are our thinking voice — unstructured, non-linear, messy, weird, personal. Published pieces are our “speaking” voice — clarified, written with an audience in mind. And our garden is something like a writing voice… Or vice versa…
  • Maybe there’s not a direct link between those three types of voices, but it is similar. I feel more like my gardening captures my thinking voice more than my writing voice… So not a 1:1 comparison, but something to explore…