On cultivating a mind-garden:
When consuming content, grow branches on your knowledge tree by taking notes. Short notes, long notes—it doesn’t matter as much as writing your thoughts in your own words. That’s called the generation effect, and it states that you better remember information when you create your own version of it.
Over time, you will find yourself going back to certain corners of your mind garden more often than others, and that’s alright. That’s you developing your unique perspective and own gardening expertise.
A mind garden is not a mind backyard. It’s not about dumping notes in there and forgetting about them. To tend to your garden, you need to plant new ideas. The best way to do this is by replanting stems and cuttings from existing ideas you’ve added to your garden—by consistently taking notes, and combining them together,
Lately I have been thinking about a personal system to collect, annotate and publish (privately) my own knowledge base. As of today the collection and organisation (tags and PARA folders) is still somewhat haphazard, although probably more organised than many. It lacks a system of annotation and interlinking, and I’d say more importantly it lacks a process of revisiting. Publishing, or separating the editing from the reading, will come into play with interlinking.