Digital Gardening

ecobytes.net will not become a digital garden, but some of the typical aspects of a digital garden look perfect for it.

Here are some ideas, from "definitely implement" to "cool but unnecessary"

• Breaking the stream - enable manual re-ordering of articles and blog posts against the arrow of time
• Bi-directional links - this should be a build step
• Tags (facet classification) - and auto-generate some "further reading" invitations
• Progressive disclosure info - like footnotes or popover info or scroll-position-dependent imagery
• Cute custom list bullets
• Marginalia - they sweeten the reading experience without disupting linear concentration too much. Home for bidi links, footnotes, suggestions.
• Cute little drawings in many colors
• Transclusion - Expand referenced items into the page (either fully expanded as a "fragment", or nested in an accordion, or as an "abstract", or just a "card", i.e. jazzed-up hyperlink)
• Spatial re-ordering - Place texts and links in association to each other, orthogonal to the linearity of a list. Maybe implemented as an `associated-with` attribute in markdown/markdoc, and rendered by using horizontal screen space plus collapsing on narrow screens