Digital Garden

Interstitial journalling

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A way to journal where you state the time, what you just did, and what you plan to do next in one entry.

Pedagogy

Seed

Simply a word I like at the moment.

Luften

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The act, or art of ventilating a home. This is a German concept where you open the windows twice a day for 30 minutes in summer and 10-15 minutes twice daily in spring/autumn and only 5 mins twice a day in winter.

Types of rest

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From a post from rikhiroy. There are 7 types of rest and rest itself is multifaceted.

Cartooncore

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Found out about this from a video of a cartooncore apartment.

Bold and playful exaggarated architectural elementa are a core component of this interior design style.

Goal types

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Found out about this from an instagram post from passionplanner.

Goal types include identity based (those that are rooted in the kind of person you want to be) and process goals (those that keep progress sustainable) among others.

Index card system

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An organisational tool of using index cards in a holder to organise the frequency of home tasks. I found this idea on the twenty-ninth of July twenty-twenty-five.

The idea is you look at today's tasks and order/schedule then complete them. There are tabs for each day of the week next week and next month/year for example. When you complete a task simply move it to the next right place. I had an additional idea that a range of colours could be used for frequency of a particular task.

ELIZA

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One of the first chatbots and one of the first programs capable of attempting the Turing test.

Furthermore, an effect named the ELIZA effect came to fruition through the use of this program. It describes the attributation of human-like feelings to the computer program

Psychoanalysis

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After hearing about Adam Phillips for awhile through the University of York's open lecture emails, I finally attended a talk on the twentieth of May twenty-twenty-six. This was in coversation with Hugh Haughton a professor in the Departemnt of English and Related Literature

Some terms I found interesting/researched into further from this talk included;

• American pragmistism: a concept that philosophical topics ought to be seen in terms of their practical uses and successes.
• Free association: an expression of conciousness without censorship to show unconcious processes. "rather than repeating the ideas of the analyst, they work through their own material, rather than parroting another's suggestions" (Sigmund Freud)
• Unconcious selective attention: filtering out constant or irrrelevant sensory information from concious awareness of a person.
• Theory of dreamworks: yeah I have got to say I do not understand this one sorry everyone!
• Irreverence: a lack of respect for things that are taken seriously or seen as holy. An ignoration of normal rules of politeness.

Pareto inefficiencies

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oooh boy!!! what a term. I found this term through Sushant Shyam's substack titled 'The danger of hubris in government policy to optimise social and economic welfare.' I started growing this idea on the twenty-fifth of June twenty-twenty-five

The term describes a situation where resources can be reallocated to make at least one person better off without making anyone else worse off. Wikipedia also has this insight “An ineffective distribution of resources in a free market is known as market failure. Given that there is room for improvement, market failure implies Pareto inefficiency. “

I want to know why this occurs and how I can help to prevent this. I want to improve others reality while not damaging my own.

Anti-rot Agenda

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A tiktok series by studywithara on how not to 'rot' and articles to read. I just love this series as there are so many good ideas stemming from it.

These inspiring ideas include doing things you have put off, a side quest of a creative venture, 3-3-3 productive summer day. I was also encouraged by the post to get tasks that take less than 5 mins done instantly. I also wanted to design comic strips of life's funny moments

Braided Leaf Bracelet

Bloomed

Found out from a tiktok post about BraceletBook. This is a website with patterns upon patterns for braided bracelets. I loved making some of these! There are still ones I want to make like a goldfish one, but I have completely forgotten how to follow the diagrams. LOL.

Dopamine Decor

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A way of decorating a space colourfully to increase dopamine.

I want to decorate living spaces like this!

Morning Pages

Bloomed

A concept originating from the 1992 book ‘The Artist’s Way’ by Julia Cameron

Vanilla Papers 2026 describes Morning Pages as “honestly life changing” through “a cathartic brain dump”

I wrote morning pages for a significant amount of time aiming for a daily practice, sometimes a gap of a few days emerged. The days I did complete it were sometimes filled with struggling and I eventually limited myself to one page as time went on due to time constraints. The days where I did not complete them however my brain did feel scattered and like I had not collected myself.

Home organisation systems

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Stemming from an ideal home article I will list the ideas and my opinions on them.

[label every thing] I think this is a simple method that may be useful in certain context for example a Montessori playroom. There are points where it can go to far, over-planning lets say. The article mentions “Adding pictures” I think these visuals are a good addition to labels to have a visual overview of what goes where.

[hallway dropzone] I think this is an excellent idea and with a bigger space (context: I currently live in a studio apartment), I would like to implement this idea. Making sure this area is adaptable to any changes is very important for its success.

[first-in-first-out] I love a bit of FIFO. I remember it from my working in restaurant days. I wish everyone would follow it and especially not mix different batches of food items (how would you know the expiry date?) This article also mentioned zoning items so you don’t have similar items in multiple places throughout the pantry for example.

[seasonal switch up] I do implement this with clothes, putting away the majority of my jumpers in summer and putting away shorts and skirts over autumn/winter. I guess people do this with seasonal decorations/items as you do not need a fir tree in the summer and you do not need lollipop moulds during winter, its simply too cold.

[declutter and donate] one that was ingrained to me in childhood. The article argues keeping a basket and putting items in as time goes on. I have never done this style but I have had big declutter sessions focusing on one area (a draw or even an entire room), and then donating what could be used by others.

[daily reset] I love this idea but find it hard to put into each day. Recommendations of setting reoccurring reminders in the calender app might actually be useful for me.

[the laundry system] this system would not currently work for me but might in the future. I do laundry most evenings so this is somewhat of a routine albeit a different one.

Avoiding bed rotting

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This idea was found in an instagram post by studywith_rae. I came across this idea on the twelfth of June twenty-twenty-five

Quote: Sometimes the way you cope with discomfort becomes the very thing keeping you stuck

My thoughts included that I should question reality and that I should not get comfortable with laziness. I aim to avoid temporary relief that inevitably causes longer term guilt/shame. As a result I wanted to do more with my days.