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Thematic-TAO: a three-pass method for post analysis
Extracting meaningful entities and relations, combining thematic analysis with TAO topic mapping in three passes.
Tagged: digital-gardens
33 entries
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The garden so far: how do I keep the weeds away from my writing
On the tension between cultivating a tidy digital garden and letting the chaos of ideas coexist. How AI-assisted growth pulls at the time and attention I'd rather spend writing.
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Claude Code: what's new for the garden
Five short experiments validating new Claude features (March 2026 release) on the digital garden. Practical demos for conversation designers.
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Thematic analysis of the garden: fresh reading
Seven themes and one emerging pattern discovered by loading all 244 garden files into a single context window with no prior structure.
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Thematic analysis of the garden: graph-augmented
What happens when you start from embeddings instead of reading? Comparing cluster-based discovery against the fresh thematic analysis.
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Garden user manual
Task-based reference for maintaining this digital garden: writing, tagging, linking, mapping, sharing, publishing.
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External content discovery
Using the garden's own knowledge graph to find relevant external content, papers, and articles.
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Garden lifecycle: greenhouse, compost, and soil
A lifecycle metaphor for how content enters, matures, decays, and recycles in the garden.
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Stable map positions: giving the garden roots
How the explore map got stable positions and pinned territories, so the landscape doesn't shift on every rebuild.
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Typed relations as garden infrastructure
How hub/develops relations replace tag-based project structure with an explicit ontology, and what that means for the three kinds of connections in the garden.
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A test strategy for the garden
Three layers of automated testing: content validation, build verification, and Playwright E2E. Why each layer exists and what it catches.
experiments
Book recommender: library integration
Design for integrating the book recommender with the garden library, making it the single source of truth for all book data.
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Book recommender
A personal book recommender that matches candidates against my library and garden interests. No AI, just logic and situational vibe chips.
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Design system and content guidelines
The living reference for the visual design, component library, content rules, and interaction patterns of maaike.ai.
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Explore page: a visual browsing UI for the garden
Design document for an /explore page that lets visitors walk through the garden visually, using semantic maps, serendipity, and trails.
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Full-scale key phrase extraction: results
Running LLM-based key phrase extraction on all 92 garden items. What the results reveal about phrase overlap, short-text limits, and the role of key phrases in the knowledge graph.
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Key phrase extraction for the garden
What key phrase extraction is, how it evolved from word counting to LLM prompting, and which approach fits a small multilingual knowledge garden.
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Tuning the similarity threshold: from 2,771 candidates to useful suggestions
How to go from "everything is related to everything" to a useful set of link candidates. Data analysis, filtering strategies, and the research behind them.
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Key phrase extraction prototype
Extract key phrases from 10 garden items using Ollama, compare LLM-based extraction with YAKE.
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Embedding models: a survey for the garden
A non-coder's guide to text embedding models, from word counting to semantic understanding, surveyed for use in a personal knowledge garden.
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Knowledge graph for the garden
Research into making the garden smarter about its own connections, from automatic backlinks to a full world model.
seeds
Chatbots without AI
Can a chatbot-style UI work without generative AI, using decision trees, hyperlinking, and serendipity instead?
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Embeddings for knowledge gardens: a research gap
Academic research on embeddings hasn't caught up with how PKM tools actually use them. There might be something worth writing here.
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Garden to do list
A living list of ideas and plans for this garden.
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Knowledge gardens and serendipity
Should a digital garden be searchable and useful, or is there beauty in letting people explore?
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Setting up local embedding models
How to install and run embedding models locally using Ollama, compare three models on garden content, and run a full-scale embedding pass.
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Building this garden: change log
A changelog of features and decisions made while building this digital garden.
articles
A digital garden as central space for my thoughts and writing
Why I built a digital garden: non-linear thinking, early web nostalgia, and the need for a personal space on the internet.
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How to build a digital garden
What if I wrote a comprehensive guide on how I built this site?
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Principles behind this garden
What design principles shaped this site — and why do they matter?
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Thinking in Public
The practice of sharing unfinished thoughts openly.
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Digital Gardens vs Blogs
What makes a digital garden different from a traditional blog?
weblinks
The History of Digital Gardens
A comprehensive overview of the digital garden concept and its evolution.