Substrate is a digital garden

After experimenting (again) with Obsidian I came across Forestry.md which describes itself as "Open Source Digital Garden Hosting". I thought it was cool, but then realised that it would be yet another system where I have to fit into its workflow, rather than vice-versa

So I ended up creating Substrate which allows me to pull in my Are.na bookmarks and use that as a starting point for notes - which are then organised into Rough/Working/Settled. It's a digital garden, although that particular metaphor seemed less useful to me than the biological notion of substrate:

In biology, a substrate is the surface on which an organism (such as a plant, fungus, or animal) lives. A substrate can include biotic or abiotic materials and animals. For example, encrusting algae that lives on a rock (its substrate) can be itself a substrate for an animal that lives on top of the algae. Inert substrates are used as growing support materials in the hydroponic cultivation of plants. In biology substrates are often activated by the nanoscopic process of substrate presentation.

Let's see how it goes and how this suits my flow.

Source: Are.na block · Digital Gardening channel