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I've personally had the feeling for a long time that most of the things I write don't feel very worthy of entire blog posts. That meant that I just didn't write

I've personally had the feeling for a long time that most of the things I write don't feel very worthy of entire blog posts. That meant that I just didn't write anything. However, writing stuff up is a really great way to actually absorb what you read / study. So I decided to start taking public notes: https://paramsingh.github.io/notes/ https://paramsingh.github.io/notes/ I don't hold my notes to the high standard of a blog so they can be works in progress or just random things.

kashura 6y ago
Can you describe your workflow for this?
- iliekcomputers 6y ago
  It's just basically me taking notes on the book that I'm currently reading (consciously limited this to 1 book at a time). I underline interesting things while I'm reading and then try to write up notes every weekend. This basically means that I go through the things I read again (some sort of spaced repetition), but this time I know what the interesting parts of it are already. Then it's just a case of going through them randomly some times over the week for more spaced repetition. The implementation is just a bunch of markdown files in jekyll. (https://github.com/paramsingh/paramsingh.github.io https://github.com/paramsingh/paramsingh.github.io)
balladeer 6y ago
I came across https://write.as https://write.as and it seems great. In fact I use it to share one-off texts with few of my close friends. But there's no commenting and I don't want to use Disqus. Is there any simpler workflow to use this - without Jekyll I mean?
- pjhol 6y ago
  An interesting alternative to Disqus might be Commento. https://gitlab.com/commento/commento https://gitlab.com/commento/commento It's a SaaS or self-hosted commenting application written in Go. I also set this up myself last week https://pieterhollander.nl/post/commento https://pieterhollander.nl/post/commento .
beanerboi22 6y ago
Thank you for posting this, I often have a bunch of scambled thoughts for outlines of posts or notes that I'd taking each week that never end up being fleshd out into longer posts no matter what I do. Maybe I should start doing more like this and just clean them up and post them as they currently exist.

kashura 6y ago

Can you describe your workflow for this?

iliekcomputers 6y ago
It's just basically me taking notes on the book that I'm currently reading (consciously limited this to 1 book at a time). I underline interesting things while I'm reading and then try to write up notes every weekend. This basically means that I go through the things I read again (some sort of spaced repetition), but this time I know what the interesting parts of it are already. Then it's just a case of going through them randomly some times over the week for more spaced repetition. The implementation is just a bunch of markdown files in jekyll. (https://github.com/paramsingh/paramsingh.github.io https://github.com/paramsingh/paramsingh.github.io)

balladeer 6y ago

I came across https://write.as https://write.as and it seems great. In fact I use it to share one-off texts with few of my close friends. But there's no commenting and I don't want to use Disqus. Is there any simpler workflow to use this - without Jekyll I mean?

pjhol 6y ago
An interesting alternative to Disqus might be Commento. https://gitlab.com/commento/commento https://gitlab.com/commento/commento It's a SaaS or self-hosted commenting application written in Go. I also set this up myself last week https://pieterhollander.nl/post/commento https://pieterhollander.nl/post/commento .

beanerboi22 6y ago

Thank you for posting this, I often have a bunch of scambled thoughts for outlines of posts or notes that I'd taking each week that never end up being fleshd out into longer posts no matter what I do. Maybe I should start doing more like this and just clean them up and post them as they currently exist.