Fighting Windmills

One of my ongoing side-quests (I guess also battles?) has been what to do about my journal. Specifically what to do about my Studio Log which is the thing you're reading right now.

I've used Notion for close to 8 years now and dumped a lot of thoughts into that app. But it had it's limits, even if the conveniences kept me coming back for awhile. At least until recently!!

I've finally settled on a solution that I'm somewhat happy with and seems to be helping (evidenced by the amount through which I am actually writing).

At some point I'll try and capture my Obsidian setup in more detail, along with my thoughts on over-complicating systems, but this seems to really be working and sticking for me personally at least.

Writing is one thing, sharing is another, which I think is also handled well by a new system that I was able to cobble together with Cursor and Next.js — which resulted in an app / deployment process that preps all of this and sends it to Vercel. The biggest blocker there has always been storage, which was also figured out with "Blobs" (again something else I can get into another time).