Gard/Diff

• Garden Differences

  • This term is shorthand for "today's changes in the garden." It typically consists of lists pages under the Filed and Updated tags.
  • This section of the journal page is a curated subset of the added and modified files in git for that date.

  • Purposes of the Gard/Diff section

    • To provide a birds-eye view of what changed in the garden on that day

      • For others, Gard/Diff should be a bit like a Now/Page

        • It should convey a casual sense of who I am, what I care about, and what I'm doing

      • For myself, Gard/Diff should jog my memory

        • When I'm reading the journal page, for example, it should make me say to myself,

          • oh yeah, this is when I was into Nix
            

    • To provide brief hierarchical groupings or commentary

      • Group related changes under a plain-text label (bare word or short phrase, not a [[wikilink]]), e.g. tuis, entities, git tasks.
      • Labels are chosen interactively with the human — they should jog memory and represent actual clusters of discovery, not generic categories.
      • Sort those group labels alphabetically within each section.
      • Items within a group follow semantic order.
      • Examples
        • 2026-05-23 Sat

  • Bad Examples

    • The following are types of changes I'd typically exclude from this section, even if they were filed or modified.
      • Too Small - these pages are just stubs of terms
        • Engineer/ing
        • Good point