I Deleted My Digital Garden. Well, Almost.

So, I deleted my digital garden. Or zettelkasten, or second brain, or collection of notes, whatever you want to call it. I deleted it. After my latest post about simplifying my life, I started thinking about how I got here again. Maintaining something I no longer really need but was worried about letting go of. Because what if I do need it? As I wrote a few years ago in The Rise of Digital Gardeners, I’ve been doing this ever since I was a kid. Back then, it was physical folders. Then Word documents and PDFs, on my hard drive, then external hard drives. Then the cloud came along, and eventually Evernote happened. My collection grew, moved from one place to another, and then grew some more. I also wrote about Notion and Obsidian and how I eventually settled on Bear. Bear is still my number one tool, and I’ve mostly resisted trying everything else for over two years. Although, instead of doing things I want to do but find a bit hard - like writing - I’ve occasionally dived into Notion…

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