This Website, Ranger Log V2
I have been writing for a while now. More than that, I have been reading, quite a lot. In both places, I have realized that the easier I make it to do so, the lower the friction to either of these tasks, the more it is done.
A beautiful tool
Have you ever had a really nice pen? A Lamy Safari whose captivating looks are only outshined by the superb writing it permits. For a person like me, a beautiful tool becomes an incentive. The satisfaction of pen across paper has made the act of writing in a notebook an activity I look forward to.
The inverse tends to be true as well, although I have found it applies more neatly to bad software. Unlike the act of writing which can only get so good or so bad, software seems to have no limits in how tedious it can be to utilize. But, a well designed piece of software becomes effortless to use.
Less effort in tedium = more effort in creativity
I won’t be the first, nor the 100,000th person to say that Obsidian has helped me a lot in writing more. I no longer need to think so much about a note before writing, I simply open it and start. Whatever needs to be linked can be done later, and I will always find what I need.
This has worked great for me to take my own personal notes. But I have always had a problem in sharing the things I do for the friction that it requires. So, the solution was simple.
A beautiful and friction-less tool
A single place where I can put ideas out in the world, not contained within the narrow confines of my personal musings. A place that I can decorate at will so that it becomes the beautiful pen that glides across the page.