I’m back I guess to writing daily after a few days where it was every other day or so. Its a new year and always seems I have days stretching out to walk in. Really though, its today. There’s no day besides now to ever walk in for me. So I just go. Down some dirt road to another. Then a paved road to another. I never really know where. Lately it has not been the where I’ve wanted. It has been the going. Escape is a valid thing for me these days.
So I do. I love writing where I can just stop and tell you all I will see you when I’m doing the walking or coffee or finding myself on a park bench where I can find yet more byways to encourage myself to write more.
Now it’s time for coffee. A nice walk in cooler temperature. It seems like I looked for some solution to writing for awhile. I don’t think I ever found the entire thing. Nothing would be like IA writer on both. So instead I wanted something less and more. Upnote seems both.
There’s always a thing or things I cannot find in any app. That’s where the desires to write sometimes fill the spots and I can do the writing anyways. Apps like obsidian always seemed so much. But really their less was so obvious. I wanted all the files on the local system. Wanted painless sync. An editor that was not a shrunk down version of the desktop app. The writing on mobile should be lean and mean. Effective and easy. Not overrun with options. Upnote does not give me local files. It does give me this wonderful editor. The place where my words become the focus. Not plugins or themes. So I give up on one thing in favor of another. I wanted like the 90 percent solution. Obsidian does 75. Then there’s Zettel Notes. I’d just use it but there is no desktop app. It’s a nice android app. I may still go there. There’s no “done deal” for me. The less does matter.
So what do I gain. I gain effortless writing on mobile. An experience of screen and keyboard on a small device. The beauty really of a well designed mobile app. I spend the majority of time writing on mobile. I need something with more. Now it feels upnote does it. Tomorrow? Who knows. Instead I just take now and will pay monthly. Another month or so.
Then there’s right now. My right now. My coffee. Away from a house I can’t tolerate at times. So I walk and write. Find less and more and often straddle the middle ground.
It’s ok. I have these moments. I remember this toast from a movie.
Here’s to the moment and the moment yet to come.
I’ll take this one. Leave the next one for then.