PLAIN TEXT; PAPER, LESS — PRODUCTIVITY DIGEST

PTPL 094: The Joy of Playing in a Focused, Offline Digital Garden

Plus: How block references in Obsidian can still be part of an app-agnostic workflow

Plain text, Paper, Less (PTPL) Productivity Digest, text-based image by Author

This week —

• Finding my focus for building a digital garden that may or may not ever see the light of day (and why that last part doesn’t matter)
• How Obsidian’s block references are making my weekly note a useful, (though non-essential) hub of information

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A Digital Garden Revisited, This Time With a Purpose

I first learned about digital gardens in 2022, from Anne-Laure le Cunff and Maggie Appleton. The teachers had appeared, but this student was not as ready as she thought she was. Putting in the work to set up a garden online should have been the last step, not the first!

Ninety or so episodes of the PTPL series later, I finally know what to plant! The texty wild flowers and rambling pumpkins, cherry tomatoes and perennial basil seeds are ready to germinate and flourish. In practical terms, this means that I’m…