Reusing my blog to be my Zettelkasten can be beneficial because I’m always planning to publish longer blog posts, but at the end, I just don’t do it. I don’t enjoy the process of writing long-form articles, because it forces me to think about the content from the reader’s point of view. It makes me nervous since it’s a very different state of mind, other than just writing for myself.

I write a lot of things every day and one of those things is my Zettelkasten. It contains short notes (Zettels) which I captured, processed, and organized. It has interesting content – for me at least – and I like the process of writing in it.

The idea to merge the essence of blogging with the process of keeping a Zettelkasten is very interesting, which should be explored more deeply. A WordPress blog as a tool for keeping a Zettelkasten fits very well because of the following reasons:

Zettelkasten should be searchable, this blog is searchable as well.

Zettels should be linked together. Since a blog is just a website, it’s made for making links.

I can easily tag my notes on a blog.

Each Zettel has a unique ID in the form of a public link, I don’t have to generate IDs manually.

Keeping a public Zettelkasten can be a concern, but I can mark some Zettels as private.

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Just write. — Sara Soueidan

Today, I constantly remind myself before publishing any article that I am publishing this on my blog (which means that I can publish anything I want), and that it doesn’t matter if people read it or not. I’ll just keep doing my thing, because I enjoy doing it.