Similar to Digital gardens,
- A garage is a system to accumulate information with heavily inter-linked files that somewhat mimics the way the brain makes connections between information. It needs constant tending and maintenance (like a physical garden).
- A garage’s posts are not chronological (see Streams for that) and navigation between pages is multi-directional.
- A garage is the Wabi-sabi version of a blog
- A garage is mostly for me, some for you
- A garage is meta
But in addition and/or contrast,
- A garage is like a digital garden but more technical notes
- In a garage you can work on things with the garage door down (i.e. in private) (see Working with my garage door up for contrast)
- A garage uses folders lightly and tags heavily
There are other Similar terms for garage, but “garage” feels best. My digital garden is a garage, not a garden.
My spin on My blog is a digital garden, not a blog (by Joel Hooks)
- The garage and the street. My version of The Garden and the Stream (by Mike Caulfield) and Stock and flow (by Robin Sloan).
- The garage is my new social media platform. Content is also Syndicated elsewhere to traditional social media