- **Epistemic status:** #budding A [[Digital Garden]] is imperfect by design, building personal knowledge over time. It doesn't claim to be a permanent source of truth, sitting in the middle between chaos stream and cultivated artifacts. With this understanding, you have a responsibility to make the status clear to the readers by using an epistemological system. Epistemological systems indicate how done they are and how much effort you have invested in them using an **Epistemic Status**. An epistemic status is a short description of how do they know what they know and how much time it was invested in research. In [Gwern.net](https://www.gwern.net/index) posts they use various tags to inform the reader such as: - topic tags - start and end date - a stage tag: _draft_, _in progress_, or _finished_ - a certainty tag: _impossible_, _unlikely_, _certain_, etc. - 1-10 importance tag Another example by Maggie Appleton (2021) that is simple by design is the following: - 🌱 _Seedlings_ for very rough and early ideas - 🌿 _Budding_ for work I've cleaned up and clarified - 🌳 _Evergreen_ for work that is reasonably complete --- ## References - Maggie Appleton. “A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden.” Accessed January 22, 2022. <https://maggieappleton.com>. - “About This Website · Gwern.Net.” Accessed January 22, 2022. <https://www.gwern.net/About>.