Bye bye Hookmark, apparently my current subscription ended. I cannot justify subscribing to this app just to be able to browse hookmark files created when my subscription was active. I’ll need to update some of my Craft templates to remove all my hookmark file references. Tedious.

Pondering.

In a week, I’ll be preparing to fly to Croatia for a three-week vacation with my wife.

I’m still considering several aspects of the trip.

How much blogging should I do during this time?

Should I stay quiet and focus entirely on my vacation and photography?

What camera equipment should I bring?

Should I bring my MacBook Air in addition to my iPad Pro?

I need to decide the right balance between being present in the moment and documenting the journey through my blog.

While I enjoy sharing my experiences, I also want to fully immerse myself in the trip without the constant pressure of content creation.

As for the camera gear, I’ll need to carefully assess what I’ll actually use versus what I might pack just in case.

The MacBook Air could be helpful for editing photos on the go, but the iPad Pro is the more compact and convenient option.

Ultimately, I want to travel light and focus on making the most of this vacation with my wife.

I still have a week to figure this out.

Why So Many Publishing Platforms?

For long-time readers and followers, they know that I own a few websites or publishing places, but a reminder is always welcomed. With so many places to publish to, you might wonder why not use only one big website. Well, I’m glad you asked. You’ll find most of the answers in the following diagram.

My (too) many publishing platforms

As you can see, each place fills a different role. Think of them as publishing channels. I prefer to have many focused places with content directed to a specific crowd over having a single channel full of seemingly unrelated posts. But there is more to it: I love using different tools and services. Each has its strengths and weaknesses and a specific set of features. That’s what drives me the most to use different publishing platforms.

Combining Craft And Things 3 For My Writing Projects

This article is about how I’m using Craft and Things 3, which is behind any short or long article I share online. Here is what happens when I get a new post idea.

  1. In Things 3, Create an entry and set priority and desired or expected date of publication if known.
  2. In Craft, I create a new document, set the title and then copy the document’s deeplink to the clipboard.
  3. Still within Craft, I move the newly created document to the appropriate folder.
  4. Still within Craft, I update my private creator dashboard document optionally.
  5. Back to Things 3, and I paste the deeplink into the note field. It’s handy to jump from Things 3 to Craft with a single tap.

At this point, I can start my research, writing and editing of my article or blog post in Craft. Now, here is what happens after publishing my article:

  1. Mark the to-do item as done in Things 3.
  2. I update my private creator dashboard document by converting my deeplink to a new permalink that I put in the Recently Published section.
  3. I monitor the appropriate RSS feed for quality control. See this article about subscribing to my own RSS feeds.

There you have it. Craft plays a central role in my blogger workflow1. This blog post exposes what happens at the beginning and at the end of a new post idea. I hope you enjoyed it and maybe learned something.

  1. Not all blog posts start in Craft. Far from it. ↩︎

Combining Craft And Things 3 For My Writing Projects

This article is about how I’m using Craft and Things 3, which is behind any short or long article I share online. Here is what happens when I get a new post idea.

  1. In Things 3, Create an entry and set priority and desired or expected date of publication if known.
  2. In Craft, I create a new document, set the title and then copy the document’s deeplink to the clipboard.
  3. Still within Craft, I move the newly created document in the appropriate folder.
  4. Still within Craft, I optionally update my private creator dashboard document.
  5. Back to Things 3 and I paste the deeplink in the note field. It’s handy to jump from Things 3 to Craft with a single tap.

At this point, I can start my research, writing and editing of my article or blog post in Craft. Now, here is what happens after publishing my article:

  1. Mark the to-do item as done in Things 3.
  2. I update my private creator dashboard document by converting my deeplink to a new a permalink that I put in the Recently Published section.
  3. I monitor the appropriate RSS feed for quality control. See this article about subscribing to my own RSS feeds.

There you have it. Craft plays a central role in My Blogger Workflow. This blog post exposes what happens at the beginning and at the end of a new post idea. I hope you enjoyed it and maybe learned something.

❗Short announcement: I made some changes to my megafeed hosted on FeedPress by adding Blips RSS feed and this metablog RSS feed. If you want to get everything I share via a single RSS feed, this is what you need to subscribe to in your favourite browser. All updates to my digital presence are posted on this changelog page. Now, returning to normal programming. 📺