Serendipity is not randomness. It is the result of arranging the garden so that meaningful nearby things stay visible.
Quartz helps with that by making search, backlinks, popovers, tags, and graph view easy to surface. The content model helps by making notes link out early instead of waiting for perfect structure.
This is why the garden should stay lighter than a strict taxonomy. A folder tree can help, but only if it remains subordinate to living connections between notes.
connected-notes and maps are the two main counterweights:
- connected notes prevent isolation
- maps prevent total drift