# Maggie Appleton on Digital Gardening  ## Metadata - Author: [[The Informed Life]] - Full Title: Maggie Appleton on Digital Gardening - Category: #articles - Summary: “It is this like growing garden of interlinked content where you are just going back and cleaning up and revisiting and adding to bits over time.” - URL: https://theinformed.life/2023/07/16/episode-118-maggie-appleton/ ## Highlights - It’s like my more fleeting, you know, small things I put up as notes. And I also have something called a growth stage on every single one of my posts, which go from seedling to budding to evergreen. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h6qa6qjhmsh0w8kzb4hmn1sd)) - So, seedlings I kind of explicitly say are like, this is tiny, or it’s bad, or I haven’t thought about it. This is just like a fleeting idea I’m going to pop up and I’m going to revisit it later. If it’s somewhere in the middle, it goes to budding and when it’s really like, “okay, I have thought about this. I’ve polished it. I’ve really worked on it,“ I will mark it as an evergreen. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h6qa8v3asw6j7dxcf05kbjzj)) - So everything starts as notes, and then if a note really gets quite big and I’ve polished it and it’s kind of almost an evergreen? I will then turn it into an essay. And essays are much more like: this is my opinion ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h6qaefash1f0tg6eqmt5rx6v)) - That’s really going to take some critical thinking. You’re going to have to be like, “okay, what’s been done in the history of this? What questions should I be answering? What are my uncertainties? How sure am I of my beliefs?“ ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h6qb1mfvq37ecr6vbqrnec90)) - It makes you be more rigorous. It really makes you double check yourself and be like, “well, I’m making this claim. Is that claim really true? Do I have evidence for that claim?“ ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01h6qb7c8gbpr68hemp7b6naxn))