Idea Pollination and Insight Harvesting
If I use the term Zettlekasten to Read, Think, Write about texts, and Digital Garden: to looking for connections and filing notes. What can I call the process of looking for ideas in your text, that is ideas to write about.
Idea Pollination
This could represent the act of transferring concepts or inspiration from your texts to your writing, analogous to pollination in a garden. – This might involve playing with and sorting indexes.
Insight Harvesting
Drawing from the metaphor of a Digital Garden, this term suggests gathering ripe ideas from the "garden" of your notes and texts. – This would involve writing papers, blogs, and other written material.
Last Updated: 29/05/26