Struggling to Note Things Down
I don't really have much to say today other than the fact that I've been struggling to figure out where to track my notes. For whatever reason, Evernote and Notion both feel wrong to me for some reason. Maybe I just need to buckle down and pick one to use and stick with it, but something about these digital tools just hasn't been working out for me (& my brain) these days. I have a variety of ideas on topics that I want to work on, but I seem to be limited by the digital tools at my disposal. Which really shouldn't be the case. Honestly any tool should be fine, because what matters are the ideas themselves. And yet somehow my brain refuses to work unless I feel comfortable with the interface that I'm using.
Evernote feels better than Notion, but I can only use it on my Mac app (because I only have the free version). Notion is more accessible, but the way that the user interface is designed actually really bothers me (and also there's a lack of functionality with tables that makes it hard to do what I want to do). So neither of these feels right for brainstorming and tracking resources the way I want to. I'm tempted to just put them into Ghost blog drafts.
I'm wondering if I'll use this blog more at some point, because I feel like there's a lot I want to write on, and a lot I want to track using Ghost, but I've just been too lazy to set up all the pages properly and make this actually feel like a place where I can put different streams of writing (journaling, edited essays, resource pages, etc.). Right now it just feels like a messy collection of words that don't really have anything to do with each other, and it bothers me.
Just feeling a bit overwhelmed right now, all around.