The best way to learn Eleventy is to build something with it.

This course was originally authored by Andy Bell and hosted at learneleventyfromscratch.com. This fork is now maintained by uncenter.

A simple, lightweight, and flexible note-taking template for Eleventy.

Welcome to Eleventy Notes, an opinionated template for publishing your personal notes, documentation, or even your blog! Built with Eleventy, the powerful static site generator, Eleventy Notes is packed with features you'll love.

Every year I ask myself these 40 questions. I’ve shared this list with my family and closest friends, and always enjoy discussing answers as we reflect on th...

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See also my 40 questions to ask yourself every decade.

File over app is a philosophy: if you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Use tools that give you this freedom.

File over app is an appeal to tool makers: accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data.

In the near future, transforming text over an entire document will become as commonplace as filtering images.

Up until now, text editors have been focused on input. The next evolution of text editors will make it easy to alter, summarize and lengthen text. You’ll be able to do this for entire documents, not just individual sentences or paragraphs. The filters will be instantaneous and as good as if you wrote the text yourself. You will also be able to do this with local files, on your device, without relying on remote servers.

In a “A camera for ideas”, I coined the term synthography to describe synthetic images created with generative models.

Enable anchor links on content headings

There are several plugins you can add to extend markdown-it, but in this example we are adding anchor links to our content headings. We're also extending the idea from our slug update to update which characters are removed and replaced to create anchors.

Journaling is not just a little thing you do to pass the time, to write down your memories—though it can be—it’s a strategy that has helped brilliant, powerful and wise people become better at what they do.

II. How To Journal
Start Small
Track Something In Your Journal
Use Your Journal To Prepare In the Morning
Use Your Journal To Review Your Day In The Evening
Copy Down Important Quotes In Your Journal
Brainstorm Ideas In Your Journal
The Bullet Journal Method

A post about how I make mind maps.

I loved Henrik Karlsson’s piece, “A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox.”

​ ​ ​ Hey [FIRST NAME GOES HERE], Have you ever noticed how some people seem to get all of the press and attention even when other people have built something similar? It can be...

If you work in a 500-person company, even if you’re junior, you can gain attention by writing. You just need experience and ideas to write about, but you don't need authority or influence. Let your ideas speak for themselves.

Write about what you’re learning or strategies your team can pursue, and share it. People can comment on what’s interesting, or even disagree, but either way, you’ll increase your attention and influence.

Writing automatically elevates you from the sea of other people doing the same thing.

David shares a compilation of the best links from his newsletter Friday Finds. Read here.

Darwin learned about logbooks and recordkeeping while aboard the HMS Bounty.

He ought to remember Bacon’s aphorism, that Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man;

Work the iron while it’s hot

Just like programming, writing requires a lot of context that you hold in your short term memory. You need to recall a lot of details about the topic you are writing about, as well as your punch-line and the current state of the document. All this state takes time to load into memory, and is easily lost by distractions or context switching.

Start at the Top not the Beginning

For documents that are more than a page long you must take a top-down approach and start with an outline. An outline is a list of sections together with rough notes, often in the form of bullet points.

Principal Design & Brand Architect at GitHub. Creator of Bootstrap. Huge nerd.

Inter as font

Learning in public: on theology, technology, ethics, software, politics, art, and more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=08S67KEb6hQ

Writing online is the fastest path to success in the internet age. It allows you to learn faster and meet incredible people.

Talking with David Perell about why online writing is one of the most important skills you can have in 2021 and how you can do it effectively.

Write From Abundance

there are really two things that you want to focus on: ideas from others and ideas from yourself.

Write From Conversation

What I find is that conversations have this algorithm for creativity, D patterns in your mind, it sort of gets you out of your normal thought patterns.

Write in Public

But also it's an incredible tool for making friends and a way to cure what I call intellectual loneliness.

A skeleton boilerplate built with Eleventy. Contribute to josephdyer/skeleventy development by creating an account on GitHub.

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This how you legit write online (and crush it):

Entire books don’t remain in people’s minds. Sentences do. Get good at writing great sentences to become memorable.

A writing session that isn’t scheduled will never happen.

Epistemic status: High confidence about my own experience, mid-high confidence that it generalizes to others'. Epistemic effort: Low-to-medium effort. It's a concept I've had in my head for a while, then I did a stream-of-consciousness oral draft with...