Created: [[2023-08-24]] Modified: `= this.file.mtime` --- Suomeksi: [[Tervetuloa!]] --- --- ### 🍅 ## Welcome to my [[Digital Garden]] which I am building with [[Obsidian]]! I am building it with my *"garage door up"* so never mind if it looks a bit messy in some places. ([Work with the garage door up](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/About_these_notes?stackedNotes=z21cgR9K3UcQ5a7yPsj2RUim3oM2TzdBByZu)) [[Tervetuloa!]] is the Welcome page in [[Suomen kieli|Finnish]]. It is not a direct translation either way because that would be boring. Also I believe I think differently in Finnish and [[English]]. So if you master both languages you might as well browse both. In the notes I am using both languages and occasionally other languages (mainly [[Swedish]] or French) depending on the source of information and often mixing them. Sorry for the confusion. Texts that are more or less final 🌲 will be either Finnish or English. I found Obsidian as a tool to take and organise notes in March 2023. I was reading the presentation of an other student - Unsu - in the [[SOFA Academy]] where I was studying [[Sosiokratia|sociocracy]]. In the presentation he linked to his digital garden and I got immediately interested, if not obsessed. So what do I do with Obsidian? I am taking my daily notes, my meeting notes, any ideas, information and concepts that pop up from external sources or from my mind. I can link those together and start to see the connections and develop synthesis. I can develop thoughts or write articles. That's why some call Obsidian their second brain (for thinking and for memory). So it reflects the part of us that can be verbalised - only a small part of us but nevertheless important because that is the part of us where we try to consciously understand what is going on. Apart from thinking Obsidian can be used for collecting data. It functions like a relational database. In my business I started to develop a [[CRM - Customer Relation Management]] system so that I could stop my subscription to [[Pipedrive]]. (I use CRM alone, not as a team). I'm also using Obsidian as my [[plant database]]. So how will this develop and is there any reason for you to come back later? I will mostly write in [[Suomen kieli|Finnish]] but also in [[English]] or notes might often mix both languages. Some topics I cover are - [[Permakulttuuri|permaculture]] - [[Sosiokratia|sociocracy]] - Some pages I have added lately (September 2025): - [[+ nyt]] - topical right now (mixing English and Finnish) - [[+ päällimmäisenä mielessäni]] - on the top of my mind - [[+ oleelliset kysymykset]] - the important questions / topics Stay tuned!