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The personal digital garden that constructs the structure of time

Abstract written by Wu Yiming

One of the major driving factor of me creating my own digital garden system is that I would love to record a fragment of a certain experience in a particular time and space, and being able to refer back in the future, whether consciously or autonomously. Thus there’s this requirement that the system needs to be able to revert back in time and show all relevant context as if I’m experiencing the moment, and gradually step forward as things were happening for the first time. In other words, it’s not viewing a recording, but to see as it’s happening for the first time, once again.

I designed my digital garden so it works in a way that if you refer back to a certain time, the entire garden would display on that certain date and time, this way I could get a overall viewpoint of what was happening at that point. This way it’s much easier for me to understand the logic and relevancy between pieces of information: How they come into being? How’s that historically important? And how the interconnection evolved?.

I also need such system to be self-manageable, as in no or few extra dependencies, and to have code that’s easy to understand and maintain by one person. The system I wrote requires no git version control system, and the entire program is in php, and it’s also database-free. In this chapter I talk about how my implementation evolved, and also how it also organized my notes and thoughts into a ever-evolving web that brings implied historical context, and how it’s beneficial to have references that also incorporates the structure of time.