Let’s think about what I can write on this site.
The purpose of this site is to act as an activity I can do. Because I need a break from work, and randomly scrolling through changelogs and AlternativeTo are not really limitless activities. Wouldn’t it be nice if I could have something else to do?
I need some kind of content that I can actually write. Because the main problem is the fact that I don’t write that much.
It is what it is, that I just don’t consume that much stuff by nature? I get bored a bit too easily. It has to be quite highly relevant for me to consume it, and even then, I might not even consume it all the way.
I wish I could read more papers, but that isn’t true. In fact, I do want to want to read more, but I don’t actually want to read. The desire to read seems useful? So I could have more knowledge about things, but it’s just so boring. So I don’t do that too often. I don’t not do it at all though.
I guess I already have a solution to the original topic. The only kind of content I can actually write that doesn’t require so much consumption is my own thoughts, of course.
But there is a kind of subjectivity in my thoughts, so I tend to be wary of depending only on it all the time. It is useful though.
So I am thinking about making a separate folder for my thoughts vs my notes. The only difference is the polish(?) of it? I don’t know if my notes are a bit more objective, but it certainly feels a bit more to-the-point and concise. That is because it usually is created by distilling long stream of thoughts like this one into concise statements. Because even I don’t read everything I write. It’s just natural for this type of writing style where they tend to just be streams. My WPM is really useful though, translating my thoughts into digital text is quite fast.
It is fun to write though. It’s nice to not have to worry about polish so much.
Should I just restructure the site so all my content are like this instead?
The thing is, I already have my Zettelkasten system locally. What would be the point of translating that into a blog? Keeping track of which note I already polished and wrote, and rewriting for an audience, isn’t that quite tiring? If I am not motivated to do it, I don’t think the content would be good either? The syncing overhead cost is too unattractive?
It’s not like I can’t talk about what I wrote in my system though. It would be easier for me to write like this instead of making a second digital system for my notes that are just a smaller replica of my local repo.
I am thinking of bolding some of my sentences in notes like these. To be honest, looking at what I’ve written so far, it’s only been two topics and I already can’t keep track of where things start and end.
I wonder how I can increase the readability of my stream-of-thought notes?
Sections? Wouldn’t that be kind of awkward?
Honestly, I can only think of italics and bolding. The problem with bold text is, it kind of implies that I want to emphasize some point? But there’s usually nothing to emphasize. I don’t usually have an advice? I mean. I guess I can just state somewhere that bold text is usually for readability purpose. How else would I make it more skimmable?
So let’s use bold text.
There are so many topics I could write about. I guess I will slowly write them. It will take weeks for me to get through all of it. I guess that is a good thing.