Maggie Appleton writes of web gardens that

A garden is a collection of evolving ideas that aren't strictly organised by their publication date. They're inherently exploratory – notes are linked through contextual associations. They aren't refined or complete - notes are published as half-finished thoughts that will grow and evolve over time. They're less rigid, less performative, and less perfect than the personal websites we're used to seeing.

This matches the structure of my, and many others', thinking - with lots of connections between unfinished thoughts.

Perhaps because it's fun? Perhaps because it feels right? Perhaps it's just an experiment?

The collapsable tree structure enables browsing of information, but it also impedes it. I have mentioned being increasingly disturbed by feelings of surveillance on the Web.

But there are also fun, exciting elements of this. I like the idea of websites with the constant possibility of finding hidden nuggets of content. Inside the foliage of the collapsable branches and the winding paths of the links, I hope that at least one person will be delighted by stumbling upon something that was there when they first visited, but had not seen.