Plant

The digital garden is composed of plants. A plant represents a single idea, and should be split up if it contains more. This makes plants atomic. Plants can link to other plants.

Plants undergo three phases of maturity:

• seedlings are very rough and new ideas.
• buddings are clarified and stable ideas.
• evergreens are completed and established ideas.

Although evergreens are ‘completed’, plants always require some pruning now and then. No plant is ever completely finished and always grows.

Naming

Ideally, a name for a plant should be one word. This will mostly prevent the heading 1 to span multiple lines on mobile devices. If a name could represent multiple things, a disambiguation qualifier surrounded by ( parentheses ) must be added.

For example, Mercury can refer to a chemical element and a planet. To distinguish the two, they can be named Mercury (element) and Mercury (planet).