WitchyTurtle

#DigitalGardens At first I felt very excited to share my notes on my digital garden, and now I'm rethinking it. I feel somewhat exposed, not knowing where to put the line between what is shareable and what should be private. It also feel like I'm still in a quest for validation more than to #LearnInPublic. Maybe I have to think in private for a while.

Other #pkm enthusiasts, any insights on the "public" dimension of sharing your notes?

Jun 13, 2023 at 12:13amWeb
Show threadEpiphanic SynchronicityJun 13, 2023
@witchyturtle My own notes are an extension of my own thoughts. I need to think freely but share selectively. If I ever want to create and share a public digital garden, it will be more akin to a personal website or blog, carefully curated and edited, and completely separate from its sources in my own notes.
Show threadEllaneJun 13, 2023

@EpiphanicSynchronicity @witchyturtle Yes, yes, yes.

My #DigitalGarden is transitory. It's where I put thoughts as they occur to me, and all but those I designate, or that resonate with others, disappear after a time. Helps me think, and clarify ideas.

It's so simple, posts are rarely linked, so not a digital garden in the traditional sense. It's FOSS, and federated.

I call it…

#Mastodon.

Show threadNick AndersonJun 13, 2023
@witchyturtle I share selectively, but freely. Most often I share via email in the form of meeting notes. Portions of my org-mode files are shared with colleagues via synchronized git repository which they can clone or browse on gitlab. I publish on my website occasionally.
Show threadCamJun 13, 2023
@witchyturtle
No insight here, but I've struggled with the same thing in the many iterations of my public vault. I've tackled it a number of different ways, all with their own faults. I've tried to keep a separate instance for "public" things, but then it turns just into a blog and dies of malnutrition as I never remember to move anything into it. I've also tried a maturity model, where "public" is just the final step of maturity in my notes, but then nothing ever crosses the threshold.
Show threadHyde 📷 🖋 Jun 14, 2023
@witchyturtle Personally, I dont like the ideas to share all of them. I think some could be public, some should stay private.
Show threadWitchyTurtleJun 20, 2023
@hyde I agree, but I still struggle with which ones should and should not! 😅
Show threadTimJun 14, 2023
@witchyturtle See Nicola v d Hoeven's vids - where she gives both some ideas as to what in 'open' and mechanisms on how...
Show threadLuke MacNeilJun 15, 2023

@witchyturtle if anyone is actually reading notes that you took that deeply, it's probably close friends and your mom.

I don't mean that as an insult, that's just what I think to myself when publishing personal things.

Overwhelmingly I think people are in it with you and the bravery and vulnerability is compelling, and I think people respect that, generally.

Show threadWitchyTurtleJun 20, 2023
@luke actually its another thing I was thinking about, the question of who is *really* reading these notes. The more I think about it the more it appears that (for my own relationship to notes at least) publishing my WIP notes is kind of a shortcut to avoid actually writing (doing the work) about the things I care about...