This flow:
- Have a thought.
- Start writing a short post about it.
- It’s not working. Expand into a full-length blog post.
- Still no good. Delete the draft and copy the text into a note.
- Months later, pull the draft into a better blog post about a larger topic.
In other words, always write things down.
Manton with the wise words again. This is something I need to get in the habit of doing more often, so many times I think I need to write about that, start a post and then Cmd-A delete it.
@philbowell Thanks. And some discarded drafts go to notes and then never get used again. But I still like saving them if there was anything good that I might want to return to.
@philbowell I have to get better at this too. I rarely regret publishing something but I frequently regret not publishing something (not that you generally need to publish everything you write).
@lmika Yes, I know that feeling as well. I find myself wanting to write but then not writing so I know I need to not waste the times that I do start.
@ridwan How do you guys save things for later? I have stuff written in small notepads, notebooks, Apple Notes, Ulysses, Apple Pages and I am at the point of 😵💫
What is your workflow that works?
@philbowell One of the reasons I love Micro blog is that I can go through 1-3 seamlessly. And sometimes that’s enough! (Honestly, though. Stage 5 rarely happens for me).
@WiredDifferently @ridwan For whatever it’s worth, I’m currently eating my own dog food and using Micro.blog private notes for everything. That way I can just copy/paste from within the Mac app. Before that, used Ulysses extensively for notes and drafts.
@ChrisJWilson Thanks! Yeah, stage 5 doesn’t really happen that often for me either, but when it does I’m happy.
@ChrisJWilson I seem to be filtering myself too much and not doing 1-3 often enough despite wanting too.
@manton I’ve set Strata up again for this very reason. I’m also making more and more use of bookmarks lately.
@manton I’m actually, started it a few weeks ago, experimenting with a read later app for Micro.blog bookmarks… it’s an experiment at the moment but I’ll keep you posted.
@philbowell Sounds great! I noticed that Micro Social now has built-in tags for bookmarks like “read”, which I thought was an interesting way to track it without official API support.
