What is a Linktree?

A popular idea of the internet before search engines was to set up a large collection of links to other cool and share-worthy things. This is actually the original backbone of search engines like Google. Instead of writing up large, complicated, and resource-intensive algorithms to search, they simply used the amount of times a site was linked to. This is where we got the first form SEO.

In a modern age where search engines are being increasingly bogged down with AI generated results, outdated / straight misinformation, and general algorithmic slag, I have begun to see the importance of having curated collections of referenecs. While I don't believe the internet is truly dead, it is certainly being choked out, and is in need of responsible "digital arborists" who can thin out the "bad" and cultivate the "good".

Why does your linktree look different?

Well if you're able to ask that question in the first place, I'm glad you already have encountered some. The way I organize and present my link tree is actually a mirror of my personal Obsidian markdown-based knowledge base. Each card you see below is a separate file with many different links to external content or another card— indicated by the link arrow pointing diagonally up or horizontally respectively. But if there is too much going on, feel free to just use the search bar below to explore with maybe a bit of purpose.