I want to write every day.

I would like to post every day.

I know I won’t, But I would like to. In order to accomplish this, I am simplifying my tools and work flow. I am currently trying out Squarespace as a blogging platform. So far I love it. It is simple but powerful. It seems to be the perfect mix of flexibility and power and also frictionless writing.

I have have had this blog running since sometime back in 2005. It had several iterations on Blogger, then moved to WordPress.com. I got bored with that and moved it to Posterous. Posterous shut it’s service down last year and I exported back to WordPress.com with plans to build a self-hosted WordPress site.

After nearly a year of messing around with self-hosting, I’ve about had it. There is way to much maintenance required, and worse, there’s way more opportunity to mess around with settings and design than should be allowed.

WordPress is very powerful and can do some amazing things. Much more than I will ever need. I have a bad tendency to work to much with the tools and never actually get around to doing anything productive.

Another problem I kept running into was that there was a lot of friction with posting. I don’t have the opportunity to sit in front of a computer all day. I am a painting contractor and spend most of my time on job sites, or in my vehicle driving or waiting on clients. Mobile posting is clunky to say the least.

I would often write in a text editor on my phone or tablet and store the file in Dropbox or Google Drive. This is fine, but I would eventually have to copy the text into WordPress and then add the HTML and links then publish.

With Squarespace I can write the same way, but I can use Markdown to add the HTML right in the text editor, and past it right intothe Squarespace app right on my phone, as I am doing with this post. I am currently sitting in Mr rig waiting for some paint to be mixed at the paint store.

Hopefully, this new setup will allow me to spend more time writing and less time fiddling around with the blog tool, and thus post more often.

My goal is to write 1000 words a day. I will not post everything I write, but I would like to post several times a week.

I want to write every day.

I would like to post every day.

I know I won’t, But I would like to. In order to accomplish this, I am simplifying my tools and work flow. I am currently trying out Squarespace as a blogging platform. So far I love it. It is simple but powerful. It seems to be the perfect mix of flexibility and power and also frictionless writing.

I have have had this blog running since sometime back in 2005. It had several iterations on Blogger, then moved to WordPress.com. I got bored with that and moved it to Posterous. Posterous shut it’s service down last year and I exported back to WordPress.com with plans to build a self-hosted WordPress site.

After nearly a year of messing around with self-hosting, I’ve about had it. There is way to much maintenance required, and worse, there’s way more opportunity to mess around with settings and design than should be allowed.

WordPress is very powerful and can do some amazing things. Much more than I will ever need. I have a bad tendency to work to much with the tools and never actually get around to doing anything productive.

Another problem I kept running into was that there was a lot of friction with posting. I don’t have the opportunity to sit in front of a computer all day. I am a painting contractor and spend most of my time on job sites, or in my vehicle driving or waiting on clients. Mobile posting is clunky to say the least.

I would often write in a text editor on my phone or tablet and store the file in Dropbox or Google Drive. This is fine, but I would eventually have to copy the text into WordPress and then add the HTML and links then publish.

With Squarespace I can write the same way, but I can use Markdown to add the HTML right in the text editor, and past it right intothe Squarespace app right on my phone, as I am doing with this post. I am currently sitting in Mr rig waiting for some paint to be mixed at the paint store.

Hopefully, this new setup will allow me to spend more time writing and less time fiddling around with the blog tool, and thus post more often.

My goal is to write 1000 words a day. I will not post everything I write, but I would like to post several times a week.