<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://bamr87.github.io/zer0-demo-garden/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://bamr87.github.io/zer0-demo-garden/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-10-17T19:54:10+00:00</updated><id>https://bamr87.github.io/zer0-demo-garden/feed.xml</id><title type="html">Marginalia</title><subtitle>A public digital garden about reading, note-taking and how ideas connect — written in the open and revised in place.</subtitle><author><name>Iris Vance</name><email>iris@marginalia.example</email></author><entry><title type="html">Six months of gardening in public</title><link href="https://bamr87.github.io/zer0-demo-garden/posts/six-months-of-gardening/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Six months of gardening in public" /><published>2026-09-08T01:00:11+00:00</published><updated>2026-09-08T01:00:11+00:00</updated><id>https://bamr87.github.io/zer0-demo-garden/posts/six-months-of-gardening</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://bamr87.github.io/zer0-demo-garden/posts/six-months-of-gardening/"><![CDATA[<p>I moved this site from a blog to a garden six months ago. Here is what actually changed.</p>

<h2 id="i-write-less-and-revise-more">I write less and revise more</h2>

<p>Post count went down by roughly two thirds. Edit count went up by a lot more than that. The pile is smaller and better, which is the trade I wanted, but it does feel unproductive in a way a publishing schedule never did.</p>

<h2 id="the-links-do-the-organising">The links do the organising</h2>

<p>I have not made a single tag decision in six months. Notes find each other because I link them while writing, and the backlink lists surface structure I did not plan — see [[Backlinks change what you write]].</p>

<h2 id="the-surprise">The surprise</h2>

<p>The most-linked note is the most boring one: [[Notes should be atomic]]. It is four paragraphs of mechanics with no insight in it at all, and nearly everything else leans on it. Apparently load-bearing ideas are rarely the interesting ones.</p>]]></content><author><name>Iris Vance</name></author><category term="meta" /><category term="gardening" /><category term="writing" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[What changed after moving from a blog to a set of interlinked notes: fewer posts, more revisiting, and one surprise.]]></summary></entry><entry><title type="html">This is a garden, not a blog</title><link href="https://bamr87.github.io/zer0-demo-garden/posts/welcome/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="This is a garden, not a blog" /><published>2026-09-08T01:00:11+00:00</published><updated>2026-09-08T01:00:11+00:00</updated><id>https://bamr87.github.io/zer0-demo-garden/posts/welcome</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://bamr87.github.io/zer0-demo-garden/posts/welcome/"><![CDATA[<p>A blog is a stack of finished things in date order. A garden is a set of unfinished things that point at each other, and the pointing is the useful part.</p>

<p>Notes here get revised in place rather than superseded by a newer post. If a note changes your mind, it will also have changed itself since you last read it.</p>

<p>Every note shows what links to it. That list is usually more interesting than the note, because it tells you which other ideas needed this one.</p>]]></content><author><name>Iris Vance</name></author><category term="general" /><category term="welcome" /><summary type="html"><![CDATA[A public digital garden about reading, note-taking and how ideas connect — written in the open and revised in place.]]></summary></entry></feed>