from Diary 2022-01-31 Keep a journal in a private one-person project.
Diary Goodness
- No title.
- Just use the date as the title.
- Assumption that it must be titled
- There should be no such restrictions on the primary receptacle for writing out thoughts.
- Save, share, and explore ideas as naturally as breathing.
- No title on your breath.
- Should be able to write it out first and then title it
- There should be no such restrictions on the primary receptacle for writing out thoughts.
- Save, share, and explore ideas as naturally as breathing.
- Forcing titles is not for writing out, but for organizing.
- The writing phase and the organizing phase are one and the same.
This project is often referenced in regards to how to use Scrapbox
- But I’m not sure that’s an appropriate example.
- Not how to use the Scrapbox tool, but how to see it as a tool for bottom-up structuring of values
- When I started using a personal wiki, it was howm running locally.
- What I wrote was not immediately published.
- So I could write anything without worrying about what people would think.
- I could clip sentences I liked without worrying about copyright.
- I did a kind of thing where I read books and extracted sentences I liked.
- On the other hand, he was also writing his thoughts in a public forum on the Web
- It’s been over 20 years.
- Some of the blog posts from 10 years ago say, “I wouldn’t write this now.
- The filter for “what to write and what not to write” has changed over time.
- What is worth writing about is “value.”
- By establishing a filter for “what to write” over a period of 10 years, there is no psychological resistance to writing what you decide is OK.
- Those who don’t are hesitant about whether or not they should write, and this puts the brakes on writing.
- When I started using a personal wiki, it was howm running locally.
- I think a good first step for someone new to personal wikis and information dissemination would be to keep a journal in a private one-person project.
- Searchable compared to paper diaries.
- One of the best things about Scrapbox is that you can make it a “link” simply by enclosing it in square brackets
- You don’t have to specify where this “link” leads, just do it like highlighting an important word.
- One day you draw a marker and it changes color.
- That “I’ve marked that keyword before.”
- You can discover past diaries in which I mentioned the keyword.
- Interesting to read back.
- You can write your thoughts about what you see connected in today’s diary or on the keywords page.
- Many people resist editing “past diary pages.”
- So it’s good to have “another page with only the important parts extracted”.
- Keyword page is suitable for it.
- This is how the dots are connected after the fact.
It is better to have a single person project as well as a multi-person project
- Even if a multi-person project is a “free to write” place, there should be a separate “free to write” place just for you
- Even if it says you are free to do what you want, people implicitly read the rules from the air and subconsciously restrict what they write.
- When thinking carefully, other people’s stimuli can get in the way.
- Quiet room metaphor
- Sometimes I want other people’s stimulation and sometimes I don’t.
- There is a difference in the mode of mind. - SNS export mode
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