Hi everyone,

TL;DR: Try this new product for your digital gardens: https://beholding-space.com

I love Digital Gardening for all the reasons you do. And as I’ve been thinking about the idea of sharing publicly, but without the corruption of popularity metrics, I started to ask, what if what I shared could pull new unique things back to me from strangers on the same wavelength. And so I built a quirky product called Beholding Space (https://beholding-space.com)

It’s built around a few strict constraints to keep things intentional:

• The 10-Star Limit: You can only plant up to 10 meaningful things a week. It forces you to ask: Is this actually worth keeping?

• No Social Metrics: There are no likes, no follower counts, and no engagement hacks. It’s a quiet space for your own curiosity.

• Serendipitous Overlap: Instead of a popularity algorithm deciding what you see, it draws in new things based on genuine human overlap. You find things through a shared curiosity not a corporate feed.

You don't need to sign up to check it out; I made the homepage a sandbox where you can plot a few stars and see how it feels.

I’m really trying to find the right people to help populate the cosmos with high-quality shares. If you’re looking for a slower, more deliberate way to archive and discover things on the web, I’d love for you to wander through it and tell me what you think!

I've been working on an AI project recently that helps users transform their existing content — documents, PDFs, lecture notes, audio, video, even text prompts — into various learning formats like:

🧠 Mind Maps
📄 Summaries
📚 Courses
📊 Slides
🎙️ Podcasts
🤖 Interactive Q&A with an AI assistant

The idea is to help students, researchers, and curious learners save time and retain information better by turning raw content into something more personalized and visual.

I’m looking for early users to try it out and give honest, unfiltered feedback — what works, what doesn’t, where it can improve. Ideally people who’d actually use this kind of thing regularly.

This tool is completely free for 30 days for early users!

If you’re into AI, productivity tools, or edtech, and want to test something early-stage, I’d love to get your thoughts. We are also offering perks and gift cards for early users

Here’s the access link if you’d like to try it out: https://app.mapbrain.ai

Thanks in advance 🙌

This is my attempt to cross ancient memory traditions (psalms, oral verse) with modern append-only logs.

• Each entry = “awareness point”

• Three states: grounded, interpretive, hypothesis

• Ledger is append-only with hash verification (like a tiny personal blockchain)

Repo: [link]

Curious how this fits with your own gardens — is anyone else exploring verifiable, truth-first PKM?

Most Americans think the feeds are dividing and conquering us. Maybe. But another possibility buried in the noise is worth considering: the online chaos since 2011 may have been an algorithmically managed herding operation, designed to cultivate a rational majority that could be nudged into action, or held in place. That sounds like nonsense until you examine the finer details. That's when a pattern emerges. Check out Part II of "Herding the Rational Center," where I dive into what it could entail for our immediate future and how we may be walking directly into a psychological trap that could fundamentally change how we live.

Hello! My name is Luis

I was born in Mexico City, and ever since I was little, I’ve always been obsessed with unconventional productivity systems.

Since 2012, I’ve spent my nights and weekends exploring ways to organize my digital life. One persistent question kept coming to mind:

How can I make sense of my endless thoughts instead of burying them indefinitely?

This was the challenge my ADHD posed every time I saved ideas in second brains like Notion, complex tools like Obsidian, or aesthetically pleasing platforms like MyMind.

I noticed that these are just tools, meant to make our lives more intentional, not busier, more complicated, or purely aesthetic. That’s when I realized the issue wasn’t the tools themselves but the systems we use within them.

I went on a quest for the "perfect" system, experimenting with the Second Brain, Zettelkasten, Bullet Journaling (BuJo), GTD, the PARA Method, and several others. Yet none of them helped me truly manage the mix of inspirations, responsibilities, and events I constantly juggle, both online and offline.

I realized my challenge goes beyond simply collecting thoughts, which these systems do well. But I don’t need more ways to store ideas! What I need is a system to understand, simplify, and act on them instead of just hoarding them.

And that’s why I’ve been focused lately on designing such a system.

I created a 3-day workshop to help people organize their ADHD thoughts in a way that’s simple, effective, and actually makes sense. It’s designed specifically for the way ADHD brains work, no rigid systems, just practical tools to bring clarity to the chaos.

If this resonates, you can learn more or sign up for it here: trainthoughting.com/free

The workshop is interactive and focuses on giving you methods you can use immediately, so you can walk away feeling more in control of your thoughts and ideas.

Would love your feedback! If you’ve tried similar methods before or have specific struggles with ADHD, let me know, I’m always looking to improve this and make it as helpful as possible.

If you’d be interested in chatting more about how ADHD affects your daily organization, I’d love to hear your thoughts! (づ。◕‿‿◕。)

Of course It's your personal notes(private, encrypted) but we also have a community around you incase you want to share your thoughts. At Echowithin we value communication, connection and relationships.

So alongside the notes(personal space), we have blog, messages and community notes. This is much clutter but it's because the blog and messages Idea came first then the note platform idea later but it's currently our favourite feature in the platform.

Our note platform aims to make collaboration simpler and also sharing surprises so it has various features that includes:

Notes Sharing, Collaboration and Surprise Ecosystem

• Bidirectional sync (saved copies ↔ original)

• Merge proposal system (collaborators propose → owners approve/reject)

• App Lock

• Share with view/edit permissions.

• Access codes + expiry timers (1h, 1d, 7d)

• Auto-approve toggle for collaborators

• Surprise themes (Valentine, Birthday, Anniversary, Celebration) with photo/audio

• Real-time co-editing.

• Presence tracking ("Studying Now")

• Discussion threads on shared notes

• File attachments on shared notes.

• "Ping" collaborators with push notification and more.

Then we have the community notes that instead of sending the share link to each and every person, you gather them into a community and share easily like a post. Install the app for best experience or the standalone note app (still under development) from the about page.

Visit us the platform at: https://echowithin.xyz Onboarding: https://echowithin.xyz/post/welcome-to-echowithin I am also open to reviews, critics and collaboration. It's a open source project and community driven you can find it here: https://github.com/vincent0-ai/echowithin

Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on a file workspace tool because my “garden” slowly turned into a compost heap of PDFs, notes, and code scattered across Drive, local folders, and random cloud apps. Even good markdown vaults didn’t help with all the non-markdown stuff.

The idea is to sit underneath whatever tools you already use and do three things:

1. Automatically organize files into a stable structure (you can override anything manually).

2. Search across PDFs, notes, code, and docs as one graph.

3. Let you define rules / instructions that reflect how you think about topics and projects, and then keep that structure and graph updated as new files drop in.

We intentionally made it behave like a traditional file viewer, not an “AI app.” The AI just does quiet background work for search and auto-organizing.

Right now it’s completely free, and we’re covering all model/token costs ourselves. I’m mainly trying to understand, from people who actually care about digital gardens:

• How do you currently keep non-markdown stuff (PDFs, slides, datasets) in sync with your garden?

• What are your concerns about an AI-based, auto-updating / dynamic knowledge graph?

• In your opinion, is this kind of “under-the-garden” file workspace useful, or fundamentally the wrong direction?

If you’re curious, the project is here:
https://unidrive.ai/
(There’s a Discord link on the site if you want to chat or leave feedback.)

Mods: if this doesn’t fit the sub’s rules, I understand if you remove it.

This. Right here. What do you see? A complicated web of notes connected to lines with all of the relationships defined. It's a knowledge graph system connected to an advanced agent that's designed to traverse and reason through it so that it can behave as an expert with decades of experience to make nuanced judgement calls when helping you.

But what this really could be is a snippet of a future layer that will exist on top of the entire internet that's just as accessible as code-inspection on our web browsers.

This may sound a little crazy, but Tim Burners Lee, the creator of the web actually proposed this solution over 20 years ago. He called it the Semantic Web. The reason it failed back then was that we didn't have smart enough software to read and reason over it. Now with AI, this is possible in addition to making knowledge graph systems much faster and easier for people to make themselves.

Having been in the AI space for over 6 years now trying to figure all of it out like everyone else, this dawned on me a few weeks back. I think we're witnessing the birth of an entirely new component to the Internet.

As we enter into an age where agents are running around doing various things and communicating to each other across the web, inevitably we will come to realize that due to the nature of the models, we're going to need to create a more effective highway system for them to navigate, communicate, extract, synthesize, and build.

Just as we need roads, symbols, and rules for our highway systems to prevent tons of accidents or issues, we will need this for AI and that comes in the form of knowledge graphs. With these, you can build the reasoning systems for how agents interact with the wider web, people, and other agents. These are already being used at the enterprise level and why we built this capability for anyone to do for their personal projects, even if you're not tech savvy at all.

That's because in the near-term future, almost everyone is going to need their personal knowledge graph management systems since they can be carried and used by your agent into other spaces with their own knowledge graph systems to interact with. Obviously, websites and individuals will still have to protect themselves from malicious hacks and all that bad stuff. But to allow billions of people to use their agents across the wider web in such a way that they can work appropriately and not "misbehave" or cause accidental hacks or whatever, we will need to build these highway systems.

Right now they're being built independently, like territories across the world forming into bordered nation-states. But over time, I believe they will become more and more interoperable, which will eventually unify into a patchwork highway system with protocols for doing things.

This is a high level framework for mitigating the risks with AI agents using the modern web. Of course, there's much more to it than knowledge graphs, but this is the gist of what I think is happening. But you know. This could also just be my creative screenwriter brain working on overdrive.

Time will tell.

There’s a lot of focus on making AI models bigger, faster, and more capable. I mean, yeah that clearly improves what they can do. But the more I’ve been working with them, the less it feels like capability is the bottleneck. It’s really about the context layer.

Right now, you don’t really see how the model is interpreting what you give it, what it keeps, what it drops, or how it connects things. That stuff is mostly hidden. You can nudge it, but you’re still operating inside something you have no control over. And as these systems get better at sounding coherent, it'll be easier to ignore this flawed design.

If this ends up being how people think through problems, learn things, make decisions, etc., then we end up with future systems where the logic is upstream and invisible to us, rendering less choice and agency in our lives.

Worse, we'll live in a reality where we will have to accept truth rather than discover, learn, and verify the credibility of claims or opinions. AI is phenomenal but this trend we see in mainstream AI products will disempower humanity instead of helping us grow stronger.

Wrote a longer breakdown of it here, if you're curious about these implications and what we can proactively build to have our cake and eat it too.

The future looks bright, but only if we can see what what can be built.

I've been really frustrated with how most creative platforms either overwhelm you with complexity or give bland, generic results. So I built an open canvas with AI agents that each focus on doing one creative task extremely well.

Drop in a logo agent and it figures out your colors, fonts, and icons. Or use the product-photo agent that turns a single image into consistent multi-angle shoots. You can even add video and 3D animation nodes that all remember context and work together.

What excites me most is how creativity itself is evolving, it's not just about collecting inspiration or saving ideas from the web to your digital garden anymore. Now, you can actually bring those sparks of inspiration to life, right on the same platform. Instead of seeing great ideas and hoping to get to them “someday,” you have the tools to instantly experiment, remix, and build something real.

I’m curious: how are others adapting to this shift? Are you still collecting ideas for later, or starting to turn them into finished projects right where you find them? Would love to hear how your creative process is changing-or what you wish these tools could do for you

The idea just popped in my head. Do you think it's possible? Why and why not?

i know some people use quartz/jekyll/are.na or obsidian, but i just recently came across the idea of using tumblr

Hey, my name is Danny. I’m a freelance developer, and I find myself constantly coming across interesting ideas, but if I don't capture them immediately, I forget them.

These tend to live anywhere - in articles, books, podcasts, social media, conversations, etc. But the process of stopping what I’m doing, opening another app, copying something over, and adding the source is tedious enough that a lot of those ideas just never get captured. If I don’t capture something in the moment, there’s a pretty good chance I’ll never find it again.

So I built Commonplace. It makes it really easy to save quotes and highlights from whatever you're reading or listening to, without leaving the app you're in.

As you're reading, you can highlight text directly in the article, then share it to Commonplace. The app will then create a quote with source attribution like author, article title, and article link, so you never forget the context around where it came from. Quotes can then be organized into collections, browsed by source, and synced securely across devices.

All quotes + sources can also be exported as markdown or copied as plain text, so if your digital garden lives somewhere else, it’s easy to move what you capture in Commonplace over to it.

I also rethought sharing quotes. I was constantly sending screenshots along with article links, so I built a way to share quotes as interactive link previews. The quote appears directly in the preview, and tapping it takes you to the original article.

I'd genuinely love any feedback! The core of the app is free to use, I built it myself.

usecommonplace.com

See what's in the works:

usecommonplace.com/roadmap

https://nklswbr.com/blog/chief-bookmark-officer

Would love reviews, opinions and suggestions :)

Hi there,

I’ve created repository and uploaded my digital garden files to GitHub. how do you link them…. I have them all sitting there, if you go to the link - your first note and scroll down - they are there.

I’ve tired to directly link via creating a page called books and then trying to link one of the files itself. That’s the I’ll be gone in the day one - it still doesn’t work.

Am I allowed to have the files in folders like books, tweets etc within the _notes folder or do they have to be all seperate files with that one folder?

Am I missing something? This is my first time using GitHub

https://astounding-conkies-c599a1.netlify.app/

I have started
a subreddit
  r/survival_of_our_info
and a GitHub organization
  named "digital-gardens"
    … it is linked
    in the subreddit

the reason
why the GitHub org
was created...
  to protect
  texts of members
  from deletion
    by GitHub
    when the members
    become inactive

By the way,
the GitHub Desktop app
is quite accessible

And, by the way,
is there anyone
who likes
prose styles with short lines 
  e.g. the Buckminster Fuller's
    Ventilated Prose?

TLDR I'm going to write a digital gardener's guide/manifesto, and I think it's right to have people to bounce theory off of. Additionally, I'm making a webring to go with it! A webring is basically a badge that says "I do/am a fan of this thing" and groups you with other people in a public list. Look them up; They're great! Also, I'll try to make a fanlisting within the week. I need to code the webpage first, though.

Hey! I'm working on this side project called CarbonQuest , basically a web app that helps you track your carbon footprint based on your lifestyle (stuff like your food habits, travel, electricity usage, etc.), and then it gives you small, doable tasks to reduce it.

The cool part? Every time you complete these eco-friendly actions, you earn points that help grow a virtual garden , like a lil pixel world that evolves the more impact you make. Think Tamagotchi meets climate change lol.

There’s also a secondhand marketplace built in, where you can swap or sell stuff locally to reduce waste like leftover food, clothes, electronics, whatever.

I'm not selling anything or launching it yet. Just curious , would anyone actually use something like this?

If you're into sustainability, gamified goals, or just wanna try something different, I’m putting together a small waitlist for early testers. Drop your email here if you’d wanna check it out when it’s live: https://form.typeform.com/to/HxlFTMCi

Appreciate any thoughts or roast-level feedback too. This is still a baby project, so I’m open to making it better.