There is a really fantastic movement of people creating "digital gardens", collections of notes and ideas and posts that can be much less formal than a traditio

There is a really fantastic movement of people creating "digital gardens", collections of notes and ideas and posts that can be much less formal than a traditional blog. They're very fun to create, tinker with, and to explore. Check out mine here: https://mtsolitary.com https://mtsolitary.com as an example, or see this great curated list: https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners https://github.com/MaggieAppleton/digital-gardeners. There are some tools being created in this space but a lot of it is still roll-your-own. Github Pages and Jekyll (or even better, Hugo) is a good way to get started, there's plenty of simple tutorials that can get you a site up and running. And in terms of control over your future: everything in the end is just Markdown files that you can pick up and take with you wherever you go :)