seeking simplicity

Lately been thinking of writing these things. How I create and want to. Things can get difficult with even markdown words. I can add an app that makes writing nice. Add a launcher shortcut. The android app I like could be my only writing experience. I often don’t have my laptop. What I do like is being able to edit whatever and whenever. So what’s really needed. I was thinking on this our last day in Phnom Penh. The phone should be the default for me. The source for writing.

It’s why I chose blot so long ago. I don’t want some web editor no matter how nice or comfortable on mobile. I want simple.

Writing should not be an effort or a distraction. Choosing plain text files makes sure tomorrow my files are just as readable as today. Not using some app with a library or database makes everything just be there. Right there in folders and files.

Finding a sync solution separate from a cloud divorces files from apps. Now to publish I do use a cloud. Dropbox now. Soon though that too may change to git. I don’t think some Dropbox or google drive makes things any easier. Or simpler.

through stages and changes

I’ve done that. Decided I wanted something elegant. All in one. Pleasant. Complex at times or needing plugins and themes. When do those things detract from writing instead of making it easier or more brilliant or more extendable? When I spend more time searching how to make the app do a thing and less time writing. I should sit down to write and do that.

The battles of syncing and complexity and extendability makes it no easier to simply write. Instead don’t we worry about the how and why instead of the practice of doing. Soon my words lost in a flurry of css snippets, themes, apps to quickly launch some words. I figured out I don’t need any of that. Nothing for me besides saving a link to a website requires some app to separately write an idea.

Then there’s freedom folks. I should strive and seek simplicity. Not go some opposite direction and make the writing more. And less.

So while I continue to sync using syncthing and use obsidian on my laptop, the android phone becomes the thing. It becomes the source. The place where most often writing begins. Launching something to write to something else seems cumbersome and slow. That’s the opposite of seeking simplicity.

I’ll leave you with…

This and that. This is when I walked in Vietnam. When I found time to take time. Life always seemed simpler and gentler and kinder. Moments always pushed forward. Elegant in their simplicity.

Vietnam

And I’ll look more to find that same feeling now. How I just want words and feelings to just be a practice and not a fulfillment.

Could I ask for more. Not likely.