I started an experiment this week - writing and publishing using the tools that are already part of my daily routine. These include Twos, Voicenotes and Obsidian. I want to keep the process simple, to log notes and reminders, to save links to content that piques my interest, and to be able to share all of this straight from each app.
Here’s how the first week went down!
The Unexpurgated Version
Find everything I’ve created this week here.
The Short and Sweet Version
What Piqued My Interest
I still haven’t finished diving into this post by Bob Doto - this is like 1990s style blogging where there are lists of links leading you down umpteen rabbit holes. It’s not the homesteading that primarily interests me (although, being a smallholder, it’s definitely on my radar) - but the project management ideas and how I can apply those to my own systems.
Doing What Matters Most: Personal Project Management for the Burgeoning Homesteader
I’ve just bought Bob Doto’s new book, A System for Writing: How an Unconventional Approach to Note-Making Can Help You Capture Ideas, Think Wildly, and Write Constantly - A Zettelkasten Primer. Right up my street and I can’t wait to get stuck in.
What I Created
When I collected my veg box last week at the farm where I work, one of the other subscribers had brought in some Derbyshire Curd Tarts. The recipe was from a book by Alison Uttley. A real blast from the past, Alison Uttley was the author of one of my favourite childhood books, A Traveller in Time.
I went on to Google and learned that she spent some of her childhood only a few miles away, and that Thackers, the house in the book, was based on another house not far from here. I’ll be taking a road trip soon in search of some of the book locations. I downloaded the Kindle versions of A Traveller in Time and The Country Child, both about Derbyshire so that I can take a journey back in time too.
From the Archives
Writing can be used – sitting alone in a room, typing – as a refuge, as a hiding place. You are concealing yourself from others and the world, and living entirely in your own mind. It might be useful to remind yourself that there are better places to be, if one can bear it, than in one’s own imagination. Not that writing is selfish and egotistical, unlike nursing. It has its uses, too. I like to remind myself what the writing of others has meant to me and still does; and what a strange world we would live in without stories, novels, journalism, blogs, TV shows and cinema. Maybe writing is as necessary in its own way as nursing, as we writers nurse the human soul through its difficult journey in this impossible world – Hanif Kureishi, Dispatches From My Hospital Bed
Best Quote of the Week
Review of my Week
Starting from the 8th of July, you mentioned it was raining and noted the repetitive pattern of a couple of sunny days followed by weeks of rain, feeling summer was amiss. By the 9th, you reflected on rekindling your inspiration for writing through simplifying your use of various apps and tools, and taking steps to declutter your social media. Your plan to incorporate Twos, Voicenotes, and Obsidian for content creation was going well, showing a positive impact on your creative output. On the 13th, you shared your successful experience with your weekly digest experiment, noting it significantly increased your writing activities and praising how using favorite tools, like Twos and Voicenotes, alongside Obsidian, has streamlined your process and rejuvenated your enthusiasm for documenting thoughts and activities. Overall, the week was focused on adjusting your creative and organizational processes, leading to a surge in productivity and satisfaction with your written output.
This was generated in Voicenotes using the Ask my AI function.