Blogging Series
1. The Journey Begins: From Newsletter to Digital Garden
- Focus: Introduce the concept of transitioning your newsletter into a digital garden and how generative AI (ChatGPT) became an integral part of the process.
- Topics:
- Why you chose to evolve your newsletter.
- The vision for your digital garden.
- Early explorations of using AI for ideation and organization.
2. ChatGPT as a Critical Friend: Redefining Collaboration
- Focus: Discuss how you approached ChatGPT as a critical friend, confidant, and outside reader in this project.
- Topics:
- What it means to use AI as a critical friend.
- Examples of prompts and conversations where AI helped clarify your ideas or provide valuable feedback.
- Reflections on how AI shaped your thinking.
3. From Clutter to Clarity: Streamlining the Newsletter with AI
- Focus: Share how you leveraged ChatGPT to organize and revise your newsletter content for the digital garden.
- Topics:
- The process of cleaning up 400 issues.
- How ChatGPT helped you simplify headers, refine metadata, and create cohesive themes.
- Balancing automation with your personal touch.
4. Building Connections: Linking Newsletter Content to a Digital Garden
- Focus: Highlight how ChatGPT assisted in turning your newsletter themes into a map of content (MOC) for your digital garden.
- Topics:
- How AI generated ideas for linking newsletter content.
- The role of Dataview queries and YAML organization.
- Creating engaging crosslinks and reflective questions.
- Focus: Explore how you used ChatGPT to think through visual enhancements and metadata strategies.
- Topics:
- Decisions around images, emojis, and thematic graphics.
- Optimizing metadata for publishing and searchability.
- Examples of AI-generated tweaks to improve visual interest.
6. Challenges and Limitations: When AI is Not Enough
- Focus: Reflect on the limitations of generative AI and the instances where it fell short or needed human intervention.
- Topics:
- Challenges with nuanced decisions or creative expression.
- How you balanced AI-generated insights with your expertise.
- Lessons learned for future collaborations with AI.
7. The Digital Garden in Practice: A Living Knowledge Repository
- Focus: Showcase the final result of your digital garden and how it integrates with your newsletter and broader work.
- Topics:
- The functionality and structure of your digital garden.
- How AI helped shape the user experience.
- The impact of this transformation on your workflow and audience engagement.
8. Beyond the Garden: Future Possibilities with Generative AI
- Focus: Look ahead at how you plan to continue using AI to grow your digital garden and other creative projects.
- Topics:
- Ideas for automating updates and integrations.
- Expanding into other forms of content creation (e.g., blog posts, books, videos).
- Advice for others considering AI as a collaborator.