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• botany created: ‘2026-05-04 14:40’ last_modified: ‘2026-05-04 14:40:00’ status: evergreen confidence: stable

Evergreen notes require maintenance

Knowledge is not a static artifact but a living ecosystem. Just like real plants, digital gardens will wither if ignored. To ensure knowledge compounds, notes must be actively pruned and revisited over time, which is why Git-backed markdown deployment simplifies digital gardening.¹

Footnotes

1. Ahrens, S. (2017). How to Take Smart Notes. ↩