I’ve tried blogging in the past and the challenges I discovered…
- each post would take several weeks of writing a draft, then rewriting, the editing and editing again
- I’m not a writer, I’m slow
- the posts tended to be pretty long
I came across the idea of digital gardens on a number of different sites, but seems the concept has been popularized at one point or another by Maggie Appleton
Compared to traditional blogging, what interested me in trying this…
- A note never has to be done, you can come back and refine it as many times as you want (i.e. cultivating the note as if its a garden)
- It encourages to publish and share half-baked (or even 5%-baked) thoughts as soon as they popup. So now whenever I have a though, I can just put it up and one
git pushlater it’s already live - I like the idea of “working in the open”. Whatever I’m doing, let the world discover it and comment, add to it, tear it apart.
- I’m not a writer, I’m slow - this way I can put stuff up without worrying (too much) about edits
- In the world of youtube shorts, tiktok and whatever FB calls their version, seems we all prefer content that can be digested in 30 sec or less. I like the idea of short notes linked together and let the reader choose their own adventure rather than having people open a post to find a somewhat large wall of text.
… and because I kinda failed at blogging, now this is a new adventure for me to fail at.