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type: "page"
slug: "garden"
title: "Garden"
summary: "Connected notes with visible Seedling, Budding, and Evergreen growth states and explicit intellectual provenance."
creator: "Rahil Chamola"
updated: "2026-07-23"
canonical_url: "https://rahilchamola.com/garden"
preferred_citation: "Chamola, Rahil. “Garden.” Curated Randomness, 2026."
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# Garden

Connected notes with visible Seedling, Budding, and Evergreen growth states and explicit intellectual provenance.

## Growth states

Seedling means rough and deliberately incomplete. Budding means clarified and connected. Evergreen means durable and useful to revisit, not frozen forever.

## Provenance

The growth-stage vocabulary is credited to Maggie Appleton's digital-garden practice. Deliberate linked-note practice is separately informed by Sönke Ahrens and How to Take Smart Notes. Neither source endorses this implementation.

## Tending ledger

Published notes show what they currently believe, when they were planted and tended, what informed them, and the authored reason for every public connection.

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Creator: Rahil Chamola
Canonical source: https://rahilchamola.com/garden
Preferred citation: Chamola, Rahil. “Garden.” Curated Randomness, 2026.