🗒️#1 - Idle ramblings, documented

Memos

I’ve added a new memos feature to my blog site. As much as I enjoy writing ‘proper’ blog posts, I find the mental barrier a bit harder to overcome.

I find I need to:

• Have a topic worth discussing

• Write well and edit carefully

• Come to some sort of reasonable conclusion (as opposed to ‘I did this and it didn’t work’)

• Have the energy to open up an editor and start writing

Memos, inspired by those from Barrucadu, are an attempt at making writing easier and more frequent. They’ll be:

• Less structured (and probably less interesting)

• Aimed at getting myself writing and documenting things more over writing entertaining/useful content

• Easier to write (for me) due to a lower barrier to entry

• About more than just tech things

On that barrier to entry; these memos are pulled from a source I always have open and tend to spend most of my day anyway; my Notion workspace.

I have created a new ‘Memos’ database which Eleventy will pull from on build time, generating memos directly from this database. My hope is that I can just jot things down as I go here (as I do anyway), but have these published to the site.