5 Reasons You Need a Digital Garden in 2026 (with Real Examples)

Описание: In this video, I break down what a digital garden is, 5 reasons you need one, and 3 different “gardener” styles. I’ll walk through real examples, show how people turn notes into living maps of their thinking, and share tools you can use to start your own garden today.

Tools to start your own garden
Obsidian – https://obsidian.md/
Bear – https://bear.app/
Notion – https://www.notion.com/
Craft – https://www.craft.do/
Apple Notes
Blot – https://blot.im/
Bear Blog – https://bearblog.dev/
Quotion – https://quotion.co/

Digital gardens shown

THE WRITER
Floguo – https://www.floguo.com
Joel Hooks – https://joelhooks.com
Salman’s notes – https://salman.io/notes/
Paul Graham – https://www.paulgraham.com/index.html
Steph Ango – https://stephango.com/

THE COLLECTOR
Maggie Appleton – https://maggieappleton.com/garden
Rob’s garden – https://www.iamrob.in/garden/
Anthony Amar – https://anthonyamar.fr/Welcome+in+my+...
Niki – https://nikiv.dev
Simon Späti – https://www.ssp.sh/brain/

THE ARCHITECT. (personal OS style)
ryOS (Ryo Liu) – https://ryo.lu/
MitchIvin XP – https://mitchivin.com/
PostHog – https://posthog.com/
Edoardo Lunardi – https://www.edoardolunardi.dev

Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:45 What is a digital garden?
01:52 5 reasons you need a digital garden
01:56 Reason 1 – Give your messy ideas a home
03:09 Reason 2 – Publish like a human, not an algorithm
04:04 Reason 3 – A living map of your thinking
05:00 Reason 4 – Own your ideas (files over apps)
06:13 Reason 5 – Quantity quietly turns into quality
07:06 Digital garden styles overview
07:23 Style 1 – The Writer
07:58 Style 2 – The Collector
10:13 Style 3 – The Architect
11:55 Choosing your style and getting started
12:05 Tools to build your own garden
12:17 Outro