Whenever someone asks me for coffee/chat/advice I normally end up saying random useless nonsense in the moment but then emailing a couple of days later saying “Actually, this book/quote/link might be useful for that thing you were wondering about.” I have a large collection of that stuff, scattered across this blog, various google docs, Pinboard and Readwise. It’s a sort of distributed commonplace book. I’ve recently wondered whether I could just dispense with the coffee stuff and share the whole collection in some useful way. And I’ve been wondering how to get it all together. I tried Scrivener, so it could be a book and Roam, so it could be networked and modern and Obsidian, so it could look like a spaceship. But none of them seemed to stick.
At first glance, it seems like a dry discipline, filled with rather boring rules about line-widths and parargraph spacings. Whenever someone asks me for coffee/chat/advice I normally end up saying random useless nonsense in the moment but then emailing a couple of days later saying “Actually, this book/quote/link might be useful for that thing you were wondering about.” I have a large collection of that stuff, scattered across this blog, various google docs, Pinboard and Readwise. It’s one asks me for coffee/chat/advice I normally end up saying random useless nonsense in the moment but then emailing a couple a sort of distributed commonplace book.
Typography is cool af
I’ve recently wondered whether I could just dispense with the coffee stuff and share the whole collection in some useful way. And I’ve been wondering how to get it all together. I tried Scrivener, so it could be a book and Roam, so it could be networked and modern and Obsidian, so it could look like a spaceship. But none of them seemed to stick.
But the effect that a simple font change can have is oft-underrated, and the first step in my process usually involves finding one that fits the vibe of the project. The idea that good typography should be “invisible” is a flawed one.
a dry discipline
But the effect that a simple font change can have is oft-underrated, and the first step in my process usually involves finding one that fits the vibe of the project. The idea that good typography should be “invisible” is a flawed one. er someone asks me for coffee/chat/advice I normally end up saying random useless nonsense in the moment but then emailing a couple of days later saying “Actually, this book/quote/link might be useful for that thing you were wondering about.” I have a large collection of that stuff, scattered across this blog, various google docs, Pinboard and Readwise. It’s a sort of distributed commonplace book.
Well fuck
In moments of doubt, I simply return to the question: “does this look like I want it to?"
Design
I’ve recently wondered whether I could just dispense with the coffee stuff and share the whole collection in some useful way. And I’ve been wondering how to get it all together. I tried Scrivener, so it could be a book and Roam, so it could be networked and modern and Obsidian, so it could look like a spaceship. But none of them seemed to stick.
I’ve recently wondered whether I could just dispense with the coffee stuff and share the whole collection in some useful way. And I’ve been wondering how to get it all together. I tried Scrivener, so it could be a book and Roam, so it could be networked and modern and Obsidian, so it could look like a spaceship. But none of them seemed to stick.
- sage
- Be this eay
- or not
- Be drowning-the-crystal-goblet
- Be square
| Pattern | Thoughts & Ideas |
|---|---|
| Messiness | Imperfevt alignemtn and spacing |
| Heirarchy | Blend of sans and serif to demarcate headings |