Maggie Appleton mapped the digital garden landscape

Designer, anthropologist, illustrator. Her garden combines visual essays with digital garden principles.

Key contributions:

• History and ethos of digital gardens
• Visual language for complex ideas
• epistemic-status patterns (seedling/budding/evergreen)
• Maintaining the digital-gardeners resource

Her framing emphasizes gardens as "topography over timeline"—navigating by connection rather than chronology.

She highlights unsolved problems: navigation patterns, discovery mechanisms, infrastructure complexity. digital-gardens lack the mature tooling of blogs.

Her work bridges theory and practice, showing what thinking-in-public looks like.

See also: andy-matuschak, bi-directional-links