VII.  Platforms to Set-Up Your Digital Garden. Capacities and Sublime. These days, they’re where I do my resource gathering and mind-mapping.

Obsidian and Are.na. When I started, I used Obsidian for the actual note-taking and tagging process in conjunction with Are.na as an inspiration folder to find images and memes.

The Notes App. Someone told me that you can actually do this in the Notes app on your phone, like it has similar abilities to link different Notes to each other.

Notion. People like Lexi Merritt, the founder of the Pretty Decent Internet Café, have templates built for you to get started.

Some people even build their own websites completely.
There are so many systems to choose from; some platform setups can be confusing and take a bit of time. If it’s overwhelming you so much that you feel you can’t get started, scrap it and simplify. Just start taking Notes.

It’s so easy to get so caught up in building the perfect system before we can start using the system. When I started, I set up my Obsidian the same way that Odysseas set up his, and I was not using it perfectly. His setup worked for me then, and now I use Capacities and Sublime. I can keep assessing if it’s working for me over time, and I can always make changes.