How might I characterize my posts on this site, compared to the entries in my notebooks and journals, or the linked notes in my “Zettelkasten”? How are they different from each other, both in my reasons for creating them and in their contents?
I write often, usually for brief stretches that result in relatively short artifacts of one sort or another, but even a single instance of writing can have multiple functions. For example, I could be documenting plans, using writing as a thinking partner, or trying to find a way to express something I have only a vague sense of.
I don’t usually start writing first, leaving until later to decide where the artifact should go. A post on this site generally starts as a draft post, and a new slip in the Zettelkasten generally starts as a draft note there. Notes in a notebook and entries in a journal usually start and remain in those respective books.
The posts here are one way I practice sharing. With ideas, formulations, and even questions being generally provisional, evolving over time, it can feel right to share these honest ephemera.