Week/Review/26/09/20 Sun
- When I was younger, at any one time I had only a single journal. Entries were sequential. Over time, the volumes of handwritten pages became the way I picture the passage of time. When I look upon my old journals, each volume appears as an epoch, a geological strata in the development of my life. The journals became Horcrux into which I pasted concert tickets, pressed leaves,
- , a geological strata representing a period of. I didn't scrapbook as much as people in my family circle did, but I did sketch and paste physical artifacts into my journals.
How are Journaling and Knowledge Gardening similar?
- They bring a focused attention to the act of collecting and organizing one's thoughts and experiences.
- They are both a form of sense-making that is anchored in writing.
- When reading a journal or a knowledge garden, if you squint, they both seem to tell Stories. Journals are more sequential, though, and Knowledge Gardens only tell stories in the sense that
How are Journaling and Knowledge Gardening different?
- Journaling is organized in a deliberately linear Chron/ological/Order order, while knowledge gardening is organized so that clusters of information that are related appear adjacent in a way that suits the type of information being stored, more like a Graph/Database. It's more about answering, what goes where than it is about what happened?