why this thing?

After all, I already have a blog, a now page, as well as Anki and my notes app.

There was a small niche that none of those pages filled:

• I sometimes write stuff on a whim (notes app),
• that I come back to later and think it’s valuable/add on more to it/etc (often when I want to send someone something, e.g. it comes up in conversation; or I think of the note again given some new insight; etc),
• and I want it to be public (which my notes app isn’t, and sharing stuff from apple notes is annoying) so that I can share it to others,
• but I don’t want to have the associated stress of This Is Going Out To ALL Your Subscribers, Who Will Read It And Judge You (which my blog has)

Hence this notion:

• The flow is definitely “notes doc” → “notion”, since notes docs are ~zero friction for me to add stuff, but there’s some small amount of friction for me to add stuff to a notion page deep in my personal notion. That makes sufficient friction that I usually have to go through a couple rounds of thinking about something before it lands here.
• It’s public/on the internet/etc, which means I can send stuff to people with little friction.
• There’s no way for people to “subscribe,” so it’s only useful for people to either find it randomly on the internet and look at it once
• Notion > google docs.

naming this thing

My name is Saul. Here’s more about me.

Evergreen notes:

Evergreen notes are written and organized to evolve, contribute, and accumulate over time, across projects.

https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Evergreen_notes

But I want to be quirky and unique and different. Everyone has evergreen notes (not true, but it does feel that way). And although I get that green is supposed to signal “to evolve/continue to be edited over time,” it makes me think of green on the MTG color wheel, while these notes clearly align better with a different color: