digital garden
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.50 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
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 nonlinearly, and shared in various stages from "seedlings" (raw ideas) to "evergreens" (mature concepts).
Example Sentences
- "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 [...]"
- "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."