🙋🏻♀️To learn about why/how this space is different from a traditional blog check out the "Thought Gardens" post in this same section.
🧭 Now some navigational tools:
🔸Categories organize posts by general themes
🔸Hashtags allow us to search for commonalities across themes, and I find them much more useful than categories. Much of my writing interconnects themes, so hashtags will give you a more complete view of everything in the garden that contains a certain topic than the categories will. For instance PKM and yoga intersect a lot in my work, as well as prenatal and postpartum care and yoga. So to find all posts related to Yoga in the garden, simply click on any post with Yoga in the title, scroll down to the hashtags, and click on the "yoga" hashtag.
🔸Most of my posts contain hypertext that will take you to outside information as well, or sometimes to other posts within the garden. Any time you see anything underlined, it's a link to something else about/related to that topic.
🔸The search bar up at the top will also show you any time a topic comes up anywhere in any post. It's less refined than the hashtags though. So I might mention a topic in passing in a post but that's really not what the post is about, and it'll still show up in the search results. This can be a helpful tool still though!
🔸Because this isn't a traditional blog, posts are often not fully formed yet. You'll see hashtags like "seed" "sprout" "sapling" etc. to describe how grown an idea or essay is at the moment. This is also an organizational idea that comes to me from Maggie Appleton, who is integral in the "Thought Gardens" essay linked at the top.
Thanks for reading! Happy wandering!