garden-tending

Knowledge Garden Tending

Current State

Index: !sqlite3 "$(memex path --index 2>/dev/null)" "SELECT (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM fts_content) || ' docs, ' || (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM chunks) || ' chunks indexed'" 2>/dev/null || echo "(index unavailable)"

Projects (undigested / total / last condensed): !for d in $(memex path 2>/dev/null)/projects/*/; do name=$(basename "$d"); total=$(ls "$d/memos/"*.md 2>/dev/null | wc -l | tr -d ' '); digested=$(grep -m1 'memos_digested:' "$d/_project.md" 2>/dev/null | cut -d: -f2 | tr -d ' '); condensed=$(grep -m1 'condensed:' "$d/_project.md" 2>/dev/null | cut -d: -f2 | tr -d ' '); lines=$(wc -l < "$d/_project.md" 2>/dev/null | tr -d ' '); if [ -z "$digested" ] && [ "${lines:-0}" -gt 40 ]; then echo "- $name: MAINTAINED (${total} memos, ${lines}-line overview, no memos_digested — add it)"; else undigested=$((total - ${digested:-0})); [ "$undigested" -lt 0 ] && undigested=0; echo "- $name: ${undigested} undigested (${total} total), condensed: ${condensed:-never}"; fi; done 2>/dev/null || echo "(no projects found)"

Existing topics (use [[?name]] for anything NOT in this list): !ls $(memex path 2>/dev/null)/topics/*.md 2>/dev/null | xargs -I{} basename {} .md | sort | tr '\n' ' ' || echo "(no topics found)"

Path Setup

The memex CLI handles vault path resolution automatically. For Obsidian CLI and dreamer commands not yet wrapped, prefix with cd $(memex path 2>/dev/null) &&.

Core Principle

Memos are ore. Project overviews are metal. Topics are the connective tissue. Trails are the narrative arc. The vault is a living knowledge graph, not an archive. Garden tending is the practice of keeping it alive: distilling memos into overviews, connecting ideas across projects, pruning dead links, growing new topics where patterns emerge, and extending trails where understanding evolves.