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gardens and streams

3 matches in 1,284 bookmarks · 14 ms

hapgood.us · saved 2021

The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral

…the garden is topological, built to be revisited, while the stream is time-ordered and gone by tomorrow…
maggieappleton.com · saved 2022

A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden

…digital gardens grow ideas over time instead of publishing streams of finished posts…
news.ycombinator.com · saved 2024

Ask HN: How do you keep track of what you read?

…I want a garden of everything I've read, not another stream I scroll past…

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No. 0001 · Pensive Arash

Years ago I found Gordon Bell's MyLifeBits research project. The idea stuck: can we preserve what we read and make it searchable?

I read and share a lot of links (Hacker News, blogs, docs). The good stuff gets lost in browser bookmarks and buried by SEO. Pocket was the closest fit for me for a while, until it shut down.

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