Welcome to My Data Garden 🌿💻📱

My PCs are the greenhouses of my data garden. They're strong, structured, and built for serious growth. Inside them, data is carefully cultivated—organized folders, complex software, and deep-rooted projects flourish here. These machines handle the heavy lifting, supporting the kind of digital plants that need time, space, and control to really thrive.

My main desktop is the central greenhouse—tall, humming, and always busy with something growing.

I have other PCs that feel more like specialty greenhouses, each one tailored for a particular crop—design work, development, maybe even some creative experiments that need their own climate.

My USB Sticks are like rolling carts I push around the garden. They're lightweight, versatile, and go wherever I need them. Whether I'm capturing fresh ideas, updating projects, or just reviewing notes in a different corner of the garden, these carts make it easy to stay productive without being tied down.

They don’t hold as much as my PCs, but they’re essential for on-the-go planting and pruning.

I treat my smartphones and tablets like window boxes—perfect for quick bursts of color and fast-growing ideas. I use them to jot down notes, send messages, check schedules, or even snap photos of inspiration. The data here grows fast and gets harvested often—these aren’t long-term beds, but they keep things lively and accessible.

Great for a bit of light weeding when I’m out and about—clearing messages, deleting clutter, organizing thoughts.

My external drives and NAS are the root cellars of my garden. This is where I store everything that’s valuable but not needed every day. Old projects, backups, photos, important files—they’re all down here, preserved like heirloom seeds, ready to be planted again if the time ever comes.

These vaults keep my history safe, out of sight, but never out of reach.

Then there’s the cloud. My floating garden beds. Always connected, always there when I need to collaborate or sync up between devices. They’re not always perfect—I have to watch the weather, so to speak—but they let me stretch my garden far beyond the walls of my own machines.

I can access files from anywhere, let others visit parts of my garden, and even start new patches with shared seeds.

No garden survives without a little maintenance. I regularly go through my files to weed out the unnecessary, prune back bloated folders, and compost old ideas I’ve already harvested. It’s part of the rhythm—part of keeping everything healthy.

My antivirus and cleanup tools are like gloves and shears.

Automation scripts? They’re my irrigation system and robot gardeners—keeping things smooth while I focus on the real growth.

This is my personal digital garden. Every device I own helps me grow, shape, and care for this garden of data. It’s always evolving—new seeds get planted, old ones bloom again, and weeds inevitably pop up. But that’s part of it.

And I’m the gardener, always learning, always tending, always growing something new.

In the coming project pages, I’ll be elaborating on each section—how the devices work together, the systems I’ve set up to streamline my work, and the concepts that power everything. My digital garden is still growing, and I’m excited to share the details with you as it expands.

Stay tuned as I walk through each step of the process, explaining how each seed, tool, and idea contributes to the lush, thriving landscape of my data ecosystem.

1. The devices that make up the garden
2. My folder structure - The beds I grow my data in
3. External drives - When life gives you locusts. make backups