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.

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:

Blue seeks perfection, and it tries to achieve that perfection through the pursuit of knowledge. Blue believes that things could be almost arbitrarily good if we could all just figure out the truth, and then apply that understanding to its fullest extent. … [blue] accumulates knowledge and incremental advantage and undercuts, rather than directly opposing (brains over brawn and mind over matter).

(have only skimmed this)

Notion allows you to pick an emoji associated with a page. One emoji looks like the spiral found in ACX/SSC — a central intellectual influence of mine. 🌀

∴ everblue notes 🌀