Welcome to my digital garden!

This digital garden is an experiment that started at the PKM Summit 2026 and was initiated by a collective of like-minded creatives. Please see this as a continuous work in progress and I hope this project to includes a multitude of thoughts, ideas, and links to what inspired me and could be useful for readers. For now, only a few seeds have been planted here. Now the raindrops from the clouds must nourish these delicate plants.

Notes

Beyond the Filing Cabinet: Do Organisation Methods Actually Solve the Retrieval Paradox?

PKM | Testing whether PKM organisation methods address the encoding–retrieval gap or support recognition over navigation.

growing By Maik (60% human)

The Retrieval Paradox: Why My Own Tools for Thought Increasingly Frustrate Me

PKM | Storage is not the same as retrieval: Why larger knowledge archives don't automatically lead to better access to relevant information, and what encoding specificity has to do with it.

seedling By Maik (90% human)

Knowledge Synthesis from PDFs: Discourse Graph & Structured Parsing with Claude Code

Research | How to systematically evaluate PDFs using Claude Code and LLM automation, leveraging scientific methods (Discourse Graph, Strauss-Corbin) to extract genuine insights from information noise.

seedling By Maik (95% human)

On the Way to an Agentic OS — First Steps with the Everything Claude Code Repo

AI | The Everything Claude Code GitHub repo turns implicit development best practices into installable, AI-driven workflows. What that reveals about the relationship between tools and judgment.

seedling By Maik (80% human)

New WikiProject for Personal Knowledge Management on Wikipedia

PKM | I created WikiProject PKM on Wikipedia to coordinate and improve coverage of personal knowledge management as a field.

seedling By Maik (100% human)

Why We Write Publicly — And Why Perfectionism Gets in the Way

PKM | A note to myself about the tension between the attention economy and the quieter practice of digital gardening.

seedling By Maik (75 % human)

From wiki LLM to reasoning linter: adding discourse maps and claim checking to my setup

PKM | Two new layers on top of my wiki LLM — a Discourse Graph implementation and Mike Caulfield's Deep Background superprompt — to cover the gap between retrieving information and evaluating it.

seedling By Maik (80% human)

From PKM to CKM: Can individual thinking become collective knowledge?

PKM | A question that surfaced in a conversation with Guia Carmona — where does personal knowledge management end and collective knowledge management begin?

seedling By Maik (100% human)

PKM Summit 2026: When Note-Taking Becomes Life Philosophy

PKM | First impressions from the PKM Summit in Utrecht — on community, sensemaking, and why PKM practitioners might just be existential philosophers.

seedling By Maik (100% human)

Presenting on Digital Gardening at ICEDU 2026

PKM | A reflection on presenting my phenomenographic study on digital gardening and knowledge governance at the ICEDU 2026 conference in Bali.

seedling By Maik (80% human)

On starting a digital garden

PKM | What will I actually do here now I have created this.

seedling By Maik (100% human)

© Maik Arnold 2026 | Digital Garden