Maybe you can create coherent writing from a pile of notes after all writingslowly.com

@writingslowly Like you, I’m sceptical of the idea you can create coherent writing just from a pile of notes. Writing is hard—which is my excuse for why it takes me so long. But I find my notes are invaluable in helping knock something coherent together, albeit slowly.

I use my digital notes when outlining each chapter of the book I’m currently writing. I write my outlines in a separate note as a bullet-list, indenting to different levels of granularity. When any particular bullet-point has an associated note in my Obsidian vault, I link directly to that note from the bullet-point. This has two benefits (the first, I expected; the second was an unforeseen bonus):

1. When writing the chapter following the outline, I can easily jump to the detailed note to remind myself of key points I should be making;
2. Afterwards, having completed my chapter, I can easily compile a list of references by going back to each note linked to in my outline to see which sources they reference. (This second benefit has saved me a huge amount of work.)

Two years ago, I wrote a post entitled Converting my notes into a chapter about how referring to my notes had drastically altered one of the chapters in my book.

@writingslowly maybe not quite what you're looking for, but I recently documented/ made my drafts public for a long blog post

@tracydurnell Thanks! This confirms my sense that it's hard to dash off a worthwhile long post, and that editing is time well-spent - at least in terms of the resulting quality boost. What's more, it shows that editing helps clarify thought.
Have you submitted your article to the indieweb carnival?

@richardcarter this is very helpful, thank you. People underestimate how time consuming the referencing can be (by which I mean me 😂)