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digital garden

digital garden 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).

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 nonlinearly, and shared in various stages from "seedlings" (raw ideas) to "evergreens" (mature concepts).
    • 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...2020 September 3, Basu, Tanya, “Digital gardens let you cultive a bit of the internet”, in MIT Technology Review
    • 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...2025 February 16, Boren, Ryan, “Digital Gardening”, in Stimpunks Foundation

Examples of digital garden in a sentence

  • The new wave of digital gardens discuss books and movies, with introspective journal entries; others offer thoughts on philosophy and politics.2020 September 3, Basu, Tanya, “Digital gardens let you cultive a bit of the internet”, in MIT Technology Review:
  • 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.2025 February 16, Boren, Ryan, “Digital Gardening”, in Stimpunks Foundation:

Forms of digital garden

pluraldigital gardens

Questions about digital garden

What does digital garden mean?
Digital garden means 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).
How do you use digital garden in a sentence?
The new wave of digital gardens discuss books and movies, with introspective journal entries; others offer thoughts on philosophy and politics.
What part of speech is digital garden?
Digital garden is a noun.
What is the plural of digital garden?
The plural of digital garden is digital gardens.

Words near digital garden in the dictionary

  1. digital footprint
  2. digital footprints
  3. digital forensics
  4. digital gap
  5. digital gaps
  6. digital garden
  7. digital gardening
  8. digital gardenings
  9. digital gardens
  10. digital ghost
  11. digital ghosts

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