digital garden

Flat structure for Quartz v5 digital garden:

Core thinking:

• drafts — work-in-progress, rough notes
• seeds — seedling ideas, stubs
• stems — developing thoughts, medium-depth
• branches — mature essays, deep dives
• logs — daily notes, journal entries

By domain:

• code — programming, technical deep-dives
• writing — craft, language, books
• design — visual, UX, aesthetics
• web — indie web, tech stack, tools
• learning — courses, skill-building logs
• research — investigations, collected knowledge

Reference layers:

• people — thinkers, creators, influences
• concepts — mental models, frameworks
• terms — definitions, glossary entries
• tools — software, apps, utilities
• resources — external collections, links

Collection:

• lists — curated rankings, compilations
• quotes — collected passages
• inspiration — mood, aesthetic, refs
• archive — old posts, historical

Meta:

• index — hub pages, TOC, navigation
• about — personal context, how this works
• maps — knowledge maps, visual overviews

Variant: Growth stages + tags approach Flattened without folders, rely on front-matter tags + Quartz graph for organization. Then:

• All notes at root or one `notes]] folder
• Tags like #seed, #branch, #essay, #code, #design
• Quartz's backlink explorer handles discovery

For Quartz specifically, test whether flat folders or tag-based navigation feels more natural for your linking style.