jarrod
jarrod

🆕📝 Now, March 2024

Taking a page out of Maique's book and trying a more bite-sized /now update.

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habibcham@mastodon.social
habibcham@mastodon.social

@jarrod Bite-sized? That’s a full meal blog post 😜

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jarrod
jarrod

@habibcham 😅 Haha "bite-sized pieces" may have been more accurate.

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pratik
pratik

@jarrod I say, it can be even more bite-sized. Each one of those can be a separate post ☺️

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jarrod
jarrod

@pratik Oh man, I’d never get them out! My brain trick was to say, “just write a sentence about the big things going on, so you can finally publish something”. You do have me thinking though…what if the /now page just pulled in anything tagged with now. An idea for if/when I ever move completely over to Micro.blog.

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pratik
pratik

@jarrod Technically, that's what I do. I have a category called 'Now'. Those posts appear only on my /Now page and skip the front page of my blog. I only display the most recent post in the 'now' category. I try to do it every month and divide it into personal and professional sections. I want to do it more often (weekly) but it always gets away from me.

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jarrod
jarrod

@pratik Hmm.... Bookmarking!

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pratik
pratik

@jarrod Another tip. I've a template in Drafts that I use to write the 'now' posts which have those sections defined and the date inserted at the top, etc. But of course, the hardest part is remembering to sit down and actually write the post ☺️

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jarrod
jarrod

@pratik Oh, I'm a heavy user of templates in Drafts. But, you're right, I don't have one for /now.

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jsonbecker
jsonbecker

@jarrod my now page is a post with category now and I select one post. I have considered changing to all posts with Now in the last month.

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