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Blog vs post vs page vs...

2025-01-14 21:51

I am churning in my head how to structure the content on my website.

At the moment I have blogs, quick-posts, lists, crop-logs and a number of other pages.

I feel like some of them are too similar to be their own thing.

But I do like how my blogs are listed by date and title, whereas quick-posts are the actual posts because they're smaller. I think this works well... it doesn't make sense to have to click into a whole page dedicated to two lines of text (though they all have a link so I can reference them from other places on the site).

I also have daily notes which I log offline then paste into my weeknotes at the end of the week. I've classified weeknotes as a blog.

I could probably define my content into two categories:

My issue is deciding where things go (more so around posts). I'm not using tags at the moment. Maybe I should go down that path. I might be able to script something up that automatically makes it a quick-post if it doesn't meet a certain number of characters.

Maybe I'll put blogs, quick-posts and lists on the one page. It'd be cool if I could display it like a tree, with the left branches showing the links to blog posts, while the right branches show the full quick-posts. Lists can just become blogs.

I also don't like the word "blog". For whatever reason my brain associates "blog" with some thoughtful insights or words of wisdom. My posts don't do that so I feel a bit like I'm missing the mark sometimes. I know that's stupid, but I can't shake that association. Maybe because I follow a few folk in my RSS who do write insightful words of wisdom.

I've seen some people have "Writing" as their page of posts. Maybe that's something I could do.

Hmmmm. Don't think I landed on anything by writing this out. I'll keep churning.