Hi. I am very interested in your project, so please, when you are done, be sure to share it so we can have a look at it.
Myself, I've been interested in this topic for a while already. But my relation to technology is a bit different than it would be, I assume, for most people. Not just with technology, but with everything. Put simply, I am a stark (staunch?) minimalist. Not only that, I am very unorganized. Here, take a look at my notebooks, you'll find scribbles all over the place, even the nice and tidy notes are a mix of chinese vocabulary, excerpts from various chinese classics, sanskrit, greek and russian vocabulary drills, and an assortment of technical notes on: lambda calculus, yijing hexagram deconstructions, qbalistic tree-of-life studies, some lost notes from physics, chemistry, etc. But I digress, as usual.
I was interested in the "second brain" for a little while, but then I realized.... I have a first brain already! I am more than happy to let the information in and let the brain do it's work in integrating it into it's world model while I sleep, or even better, while I'm gardening!
Still, I've been meaning to take my gardening to the digital realm, as well, build my own digital garden. Most likely here and in the smol.pub.
Recently, I have been delving more into yijing (易經) studies, and I've been thinking of building a sort of "wiki", in the sense of an integrated, easy-access reference into the several hexagrams, commentaries, and translations. Right now, for example, as I read one or another translation or commentary translation, they usually come without the chinese characters themselves, and mix commentaries inside the judgement texts, so I have to constantly reach elsewhere (usually ctext) for the chinese text to see what's what and what the original chinese texts is (for which each translation gives a different rendering.) This is precisely what I've been starting to consider.
Of course, the idea of making it public for others to benefit from the fruit of your researches and learning is also a very enticing proposition! You mentioned homesteading, renewable energy, and gardening. Here is an example of my inner struggle between technology and non-technology. Lately, I've been taking to the maxim that "the landscape is the textbook", and opted not to mediate my interaction with the garden through a myriad of books and online resources. On the other hand, something like Mollison's Designer's Manual and Holmgren's Principles and Practices are a very good compass and source of ideas. Likewise, whatever "notes" I take about this, they are embodied in the garden itself, so whatever reference I need, it is taken from the garden. Here, the first brain holds the "world model", and the "second brain" is the landscape, the digital computer ends up as a superfluous third party.
Anyway, again, please be sure to share the wiki/garden once you're done. Myself, I'm too thinking of restructuring my smol.pub pages to serve as a sort of "study log" for the... many many things I engage in. Hopefully, it'll help me keep them all in some sort of order.
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hey there, ~detritus!
definitely happy to share it when it's ready to go. if all goes according to plan, the initial wiki entries will be knocked out by the end of this week and will all be live on the 'redesign' of my website (which is really just a change of the color scheme and removal of some outdated pages, with additions of newer, updated ones).
i also plan on mirroring it all over gemini as well, similar to what i'm currently doing with my mobile linux site.
your studies on yijing sound very interesting as well, and if you end up making a wiki at some point in the future, please make sure to share it here! that kind of thing is fascinating to me.
like you mention, i too delve deep into many different topics, and while my 'first brain' is good at holding it all in, i find the idea of logging the information into the 'second brain' (wiki/digital garden) not only benefits me should i need to come back and reference some detail about something i've learned, but I can then easily turn around and share that information with someone else should they need it, or some smallweb traveler will happen upon it at some point and maybe discover some new information or learn about a new topic they never knew they were interested in - i know i have learned about a lot of cool new stuff this way!
soon as it's all wrapped up, i will post it here for everyone and link to it here in my midnight profile. it will also be in git repos, should someone want to add anything to it/expand on a topic in it they might be knowledgeable about, and then that information can easily be integrated in with a simple pull request.
cheers, ~detritus! hope you and yours are having a good weekend.