My February goal was to publish an article every day for the entire month, and I’m happy to have completed it.
Shout out to the wonderful Wiggle Work community who started this Winter Writing Workshop. As someone who prides themself on never succumbing to peer pressure, the joke is on me! I finished and only used my phone a friend lifeline once.
Shoutout to my Wiggle Work friends, and thank you to everyone who joined this month and everyone who cheered us on from the Discord. Your emojis of support were the true friends we made along the way.
The other four who finished:
Writing tools
Every year, I put “write more” on my list of goals, and every year, I look back and realize some invisible barrier gets in my way. I get easily frustrated with every writing tool I have ever used, and my brain obsesses over the platform’s limitations.
I had a little bit of new writing tool productivity with both Obsidian and Micro.blog which were both invaluable to me.
Writing every day in February instilled in me that Obsidian is the best writing platform for me. I even paid for a Catalyst license to support Obsidian’s development.
Micro.blog also made it easy to post every day, and I suspect it will shape and heavily influence my blog platform going forward. I’m still annoyed that I can’t upload images or edit my social media posts with it, but once I understood the service’s limitations, it never got in my way.
Going forward
My existing blog uses GitHub Pages and Jekyll, but I’m ready to return to Django with a basic REST API for posting new blog posts and links.
My existing blog is built with Frontmatter, Markdown, and Yaml, which makes importing and editing everything doable with Python and a text editor.
I plan to use a mix of Obsidian with a custom Python script that can publish and sync to my website until I find a nice JS writing interface that I like.
Now that Obsidian supports Properties via Frontmatter, I can store my Post metadata between my text files and my blog to sync between the two.
I also want a slick Typefully-like experience for quick posts. Just one big markdown-friendly writing area that can handle dragging and dropping images to it. I want to pick where I am publishing when I choose to publish.
That’s where I plan to go next.
