I’m working in public here on the Zettelblogging method and there’s much to learn. While I was excited about using the RSS feed from the site as an archive, it turns out that the original Drafts document is just cleaner. But I now have a Drafts action that posts, sends a markdown copy to DEVONthink and archives the file in Drafts.
As I’ve started dividing up each days notes and bringing them into Tinderbox, I’ve begun to realize that posting a big end of day draft with topical headings looks like an imitation of a calendar structure but doesn’t help find older posts. I’ve looked at current and historical linkblog examples and there’s really no reason not to publish short notes like this as their own posts.
This post for example now is part of the breadcrumb trail in the development of the method.
As I’ve been pulling notes into Tinderbox, I realized that my note taking style is much better aligned with the Bullet Journal school than the Zettelkasten school. My notes have always tended to be telegraphic and aids to memory, not finished writing that could be understood by some one else or even by myself years later. I’m capturing daily notes and links in Drafts, then editing them into a post like this for publication.
Since this is a blogging method, my current thought is that my Tinderbox files can be populated by notes that have been published, but then summarized and synthesized in my usual note taking style. Those summaries then form the basis of new notes to be published in what should be a virtuous cycle of notes resulting in posts that result in notes and more posts.
Since this is casual blogging, I don’t care about finishing a full exposition. This is all work in progress and publishable when I’m done with the idea for the day.
Like now.