Garden and Industry wording
Last updated 2026-08-16
Why two voices?
Leefy’s default voice is Garden growth language (tree, season, flower, fruit). It helps non-technical people reason about structure without project-management jargon.
Some people prefer Industry / Standard labels (project, phase, approved, deliverable). You can switch any time in Settings → Terminology. Your data does not change — only the words on buttons and labels.
Older help articles may still use Garden words. This page is the bridge.
How do I switch?
- Open Settings (account menu or command palette: “Settings”).
- Under Terminology, pick Garden growth or Industry / Standard.
- Optionally set Language (English or Español) in the same panel.
Preference is saved for your account when you are signed in.
Quick map (Garden → Industry)
| If a guide says… | In Industry wording that means… | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Tree | Project | Your whole plan / workspace unit |
| Garden | Workspace | Where your projects live |
| Season | Phase | A step in the project lineup (ideation, build, …) |
| Advance season | Advance phase | Move the project baseline forward |
| Root / Seed | Root / Origin | The starting node of the project |
| Trunk | Baseline | Stable baseline for the current phase |
| Branch | Branch | A workstream that has children |
| Leaf | Work item | A childless node that can hold tasks |
| Bud | Draft | Captured idea, not committed yet |
| Flower | Approved | Definition agreed — quality signal |
| Fruit | Deliverable | Shipped work with a real artifact |
| Artifact | Artifact | A document/file on a node (same word) |
| Thicket | Exploration zone | Sandbox area; coach is quieter there |
| Pollinator / Cross-pollinate | Cross-link | Link between distant nodes |
| Soil | Project context | Docs that ground AI for this project |
| Bedrock | Standards | Your personal guidelines across projects |
| Grow (menu) | Generate | AI actions that expand the plan |
| Harvest (session) | Capture summary | Bring agent results back into the tree |
| Smart prune | Cleanup suggestions | AI suggestions to archive/cleanup |
| Compost | Trash | Archived nodes — restore or delete forever |
| Work stream | Work stream | A node's tasks, artifacts and sessions (same word) |
| Session | Session | A handed-off coding/agent run (same word) |
| Numbering | WBS | The 1.2.3 codes that show where a node sits. Novice calls it Numbering; Intermediate and Expert call it WBS |
| WBS | WBS | Work breakdown structure — the numbering scheme that gives every node a code (1, 1.2, 1.2.3) recording where it sits in the tree, so a node can be named in a conversation, an export or a baseline without pointing at it |
| Tidy up | Re-layout | Re-run the automatic canvas layout |
| Generations | Levels | How many tree depths the canvas shows |
| Plant a tree / seed | New project / root idea | Create a project or starting node |
| Coach | Coach | AI guidance (same word) |
| Deliverables | Deliverables | The metered AI unit — what one heavy AI action spends (same word) |
Words that must not be mixed up
- Flower / Approved is not the same as an Artifact. An artifact is a file or doc on a node. A flower means “we agree what this node is.”
- Fruit / Deliverable requires a real artifact — the product will not claim “delivered” without one.
- A Deliverable node is not a billing deliverable. The node is a piece of shipped work in your tree. The billing unit is what a heavy AI action spends from your monthly allowance — you can spend several producing one node, or none at all if you bring your own key. The word is the same because both mean “a finished thing you asked for”; the balance in the top bar is always the billing one. Credits were the old name for it and are gone.
- Archive (not prune) is the safe remove for work you might restore. “Prune” only appears as optional AI cleanup language in Garden voice.
- Compost / Trash holds archived work. Restore brings a branch back; Delete forever inside that view is the only destructive action.
Seasons and phases in the app
Under the hood the product still stores phase ids. In Garden voice you only ever see Season. In Industry voice you only ever see Phase. Both refer to the same lineup you edit under More → Seasons.
Language (Español)
Settings → Language → Español translates product labels (and Spanish Industry wording uses fase, entregable, proyecto, etc.). Help articles on this site are still English for now — use this glossary when a guide’s Garden English does not match your UI.
Where to find this glossary
- More menu → Glossary (inside the garden)
- Or this page: /help/terminology-glossary
Related
- Switch wording: Settings → Terminology
- Switch language: Settings → Language
- Hand off work: Hand off a branch to Claude Code