digital garden

English

Noun

digital garden (plural digital gardens)

  1. A public, evolving online space for cultivating ideas, notes, and knowledge, unlike a traditional blog's finished posts; where thoughts grow organically, are continuously edited (like pruning), linked together non-linearly, and shared in various stages from "seedlings" (raw ideas) to "evergreens" (mature concepts).
    Coordinate terms: Zettelkasten, second brain, personal knowledge management
    See also: digital gardening, wiki
    • 2020 September 3, Basu, Tanya, “Digital gardens let you cultive a bit of the internet”, in MIT Technology Review‎[1]:
      The new wave of digital gardens discuss books and movies, with introspective journal entries; others offer thoughts on philosophy and politics. Some are works of art in themselves, visual masterpieces that invite the viewer to explore; others are simpler and more utilitarian, using Google Docs or Wordpress templates to share intensely personal [...]
    • 2025 February 16, Boren, Ryan, “Digital Gardening”, in Stimpunks Foundation‎[2]:
      A digital garden is an online space at the intersection of a notebook and a blog, where digital gardeners share seeds of thoughts to be cultivated in public. Contrary to a blog, where articles and essays have a publication date and start decaying as soon as they are published, a digital garden is evergreen: digital gardeners keep on editing and refining their notes.
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