**Planted**: 2023-03-15
**Last tended**: 2023-05-26
# What is this?
Welcome to Arbor, my digital garden of thinking.
If you're curious what a digital garden is, check out [Maggie Appleton's fantastic description](https://maggieappleton.com/garden-history). Maybe someday I'll write my own perspective on digital gardening down. In short, Maggie writes:
>A garden is a collection of evolving ideas that aren't strictly organised by their publication date. They're inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations. They aren't refined or complete - notes are published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve over time. They're less rigid, less performative, and less perfect than the personal websites we're used to seeing.
# Who wrote this?
I'm Marcus, a 27 year-old computer scientist working at [Southwest Research Institute](https://www.boulder.swri.edu/) to study the Sun. This digital garden will likely focus heavily on tech and science related topics, but I hope to share insights into books and personal learnings as well. Feel free to [check out my website](https://jmbhughes.com/) where I occasionally post more complete articles. If you want to contact me email at [
[email protected]](mailto:
[email protected]).
# How do I navigate this site?
There are several ways to get around. You could start with one of the key entries from below and branch off there. All #index files, i.e. stubs for which many other topics stem from, will be tagged as such (so just click on that little hashtag to see a list of them). For example, check out the [[rust programming index]] to learn more about Rust or [[quantified self]] to learn more about that topic. There are many topics that don't have an index. They may be linked together with a common tag, found at the bottom of the note. In general, **enjoy the feeling of getting lost in notes.**
## Key Entries
Check out these entries as jumping off points:
- [[mood tracking]]
- [[beeminder]]
- [[inspiring digital gardens]]
- [[thematic maps]] or [[cordmap]]
There will also be new entries on the way... see [[note planning]].
# Logo and Icon
The logo shown at left is an inversion of Figure 5.5 from [this thesis on Lindenmayer systems in Blender](https://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/research/publications/2017/LEOPOLD-2017-ALG/LEOPOLD-2017-ALG-thesis.pdf). I hope to make my own logo soon.
tags: #index