Writing (MoC) - DeveloPassion

# Writing (MoC) ## Notes   - [[100 Days of note-taking - Day 1 - Which topics would your book of life cover]] - [[100 Days of Note-taking - Day 1 (Article)]] - [[100 Days of note-taking by Bianca Pereira]] - [[21 months in and 80K views later (Article)]] - [[3x3 Template]] - [[ABCDE framework for storytelling]] - [[Advice for people getting started with Knowledge Management and Writing (Article)]] - [[Advice for people getting started with PKM]] - [[AI Ghostwriter Guide]] - [[Angles to consider when thinking about the value of a journal]] - [[Atomic essays]] - [[Atomic notes]] - [[Benefits of journaling]] - [[Benefits of Obsidian]] - [[Benefits of taking notes while reading]] - [[Big topics on Medium]] - [[Brief history of note-taking]] - [[Characteristics of good notes]] - [[Concept Map]] - [[Content creation growth strategies]] - [[Content pillars]] - [[Creating communities, sharing ideas, helping and empowering people builds trust, and social capital]] - [[Descending Action]] - [[DeveloPassion's Newsletter 012 - New Book and Angular 11]] - [[DeveloPassion's Newsletter 013 - Nrwl NX 11 and Prime NG 11]] - [[Downsides of writing long notes]] - [[Effective note-taking tips (Article)]] - [[Evening Routine]] - [[Everyone has their own unique voice]] - [[Focus on creating a library, not just a few pieces of content]] - [[Forms of proven writing]] - [[Four-Way Test]] - [[From 0 to 100 Content Ideas - My Evergreen Idea Generation System (Article)]] - [[Grammarly]] - [[Harper]] - [[How one system feeds everything I do (Article)]] - [[How to capture book notes and turn those into smart notes (Article)]] - [[How to create a top notch AI writing assistant]] - [[How to create better atomic notes]] - [[How to create new content using your existing notes]] - [[How to create new content using your existing notes (Article)]] - [[How to define your own style]] - [[How to expand content into pillar pieces]] - [[How to find inspiration for journaling]] - [[How To Free Your Mind and Enhance Your Memory Write To Forget, Not To Remember (Article)]] - [[How to get started with journaling]] - [[How to Prepare for the Future of Knowledge Work (Article)]] - [[How to publish notes with Obsidian]] - [[How to start writing (2020 version) (Article)]] - [[How to structure the perfect post]] - [[How to succeed with online writing. The journey from 4K to 30K views per month. Lessons learned (Article)]] - [[How to Take Notes at Work and Never Forget Anything (Article)]] - [[How to take notes while reading non-fiction books]] - [[How to take notes, and what to write down]] - [[How to write thorough articles]] - [[If you don't know about something, write about it]] - [[Interstitial Journaling]] - [[Introducing the Obsidian Starter Kit (Article)]] - [[Introducing the Personal Knowledge Management Library (Article)]] - [[Issues with old-school note-taking]] - [[Journaling every day is powerful Part 1 - Introduction (Article)]] - [[Journaling every day is powerful Part 2 - Going Further (Article)]] - [[Journaling helps hold yourself accountable]] - [[Journaling prompts]] - [[Knowii Community Event - Knowledge Builders - 2025-08-20 - Journaling Deep Dive]] - [[Knowii Community Event - Knowledge Builders - 2025-11-18 - OSK v3 Deep Dive Workshop]] - [[Knowledge Management Proficiency Ladder]] - [[Mandy Hale]] - [[Many people forget or neglect to take notes]] - [[Markdown]] - [[Markdown introduction (Article)]] - [[Mastering Atomic Notes Unlock Efficiency and Knowledge Management (Article)]] - [[Mindset strategies to bring ideas from mind to paper]] - [[Morning pages]] - [[30 Areas/33 Permanent notes/33.02 Content/Morning Routine.md|Morning Routine]] - [[My Content Strategy]] - [[My Content Types]] - [[My Template for Daily Notes]] - [[My Writing Samples]] - [[My Writing Style]] - [[Newsletter plugs]] - [[Note-taking advice]] - [[Notion]] - [[Obsidian]] - [[Obsidian Starter Kit - Tutorial - Building your voice profile for AI-consistent writing]] - [[Online writing tips]] - [[Outliner]] - [[PAS Framework]] - [[Paul Graham's Advice for Writers]] - [[Personal Knowledge Management Anti-patterns]] - [[Personal Knowledge Management Library (PKM Library)]] - [[Pie writing]] - [[Precision and correctness are like opposing forces]] - [[Proven approaches for generating endless writing ideas]] - [[Quand tout part en Vril(le) (Story)]] - [[Questions to uncover what to write about]] - [[Rate of Revelation]] - [[Reading feeds writing]] - [[reMarkable]] - [[Research, Read, Assimilate. Rinse and repeat]] - [[RoughDraft]] - [[SCQA Storytelling model]] - [[Ship 30 for 30]] - [[Short content wins]] - [[Social media platforms lifecycle]] - [[Stadium of selves]] - [[Stop Losing Your Best Ideas - The Journaling System That Changed My Life (Article)]] - [[Taking notes means taking a stance]] - [[The agony behind writing]] - [[The Art of Reading Slowly - Why Speed Isn't Everything (Article)]] - [[The Marginalian]] - [[The more we take notes, the more we improve our memory]] - [[The Tag System That Finally Made Sense for Me - From Perfectionism Paralysis to Discovery Freedom (Article)]] - [[The way you write down your tasks can dictate whether it will get done]] - [[Tiago Forte's Guide to train AI to write like you]] - [[Tips for writing dialogues]] - [[Tips for writing tweets with high engagement]] - [[Tips to build an audience]] - [[Tips to get posts on top of Hacker News]] - [[Tone Matching]] - [[Touch typing]] - [[Two-year test]] - [[TypeScript 3 Projects - What's Next (Article)]] - [[Typewriter Sounds on Linux (Article)]] - [[Unlocking Potential - The Value Of Transitioning from Analog to Digital (Article)]] - [[Use what you experience as inspiration for your writing]] - [[What Are Daily Notes Useful For]] - [[Where to write online]] - [[Why all solopreneurs should write a journal (Article)]] - [[Why and how to choose a category for your content]] - [[Why and how to tag notes in your PKM]] - [[Why Take and Make Notes (Article)]] - [[Why take notes while reading]] - [[Write as you learn]] - [[Write better by answering why, what and how]] - [[Write down your plans]] - [[Write Once Read Never (WORN)]] - [[Write one note a day for 30 days]] - [[Write to think clearly]] - [[Write. Rewrite. Revise. Then do]] - [[WriteBook]] - [[Writing about a topic helps uncover the gaps in our understanding]] - [[Writing Data Flywheel]] - [[Writing first steps]] - [[Writing is an awesome way to learn]] - [[Writing is thinking]] - [[Writing on the run]] - [[Writing success metrics]] - [[Writing summaries is not only useful before exams]] - [[Writing tips]] - [[You are qualified to write]] - [[You can learn a lot about something by trying to write down what you think you know]] - [[You don't need big ideas to start writing]] - [[Zoey & Jenny — Partie 1 (Story)]]  ## Quotes   - [[A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought]] - [[A characteristic of every new medium is that its content is always another previous medium]] - [[A journal is a great starting point for PKM]] - [[A letter is a soul, so faithful an echo of the speaking voice that to the sensitive it is among the richest treasures of love]] - [[A mathematical equation and a written sentence have much in common]] - [[A new piece of content (as opposed to atomic notes) is like a snapshot of a set of ideas in your knowledge base at a specific point in time]] - [[All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since]] - [[Any output has to have a reason to exist. That's why we have trash bins and recycling bins. Overconsuming is obviously not okay]] - [[As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand]] - [[Atomic notes are like LEGO blocks. Reusable, and composable]] - [[Because paper has more patience than people]] - [[Being a writer is not a destination. It’s a journey]] - [[Better thinking makes you a better person. And writing is a great way to improve your thinking]] - [[Break your egocentric little scribbler’s heart to kill your darlings]] - [[Deciding to start writing online is one thing, not giving up is another]] - [[Do what comes easy to you]] - [[Don't just think it. Ink it]] - [[Either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing]] - [[Every reader finds himself]] - [[Everything you write should feel both like a stand-alone piece, and a part of a larger library]] - [[Freewriting involves opening up a new note or existing note and letting your thoughts flow. There is no judgement. You freely write]] - [[How do people even know what they think, if they don't write]] - [[I am a gelley slave to pen and ink]] - [[I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn]] - [[I don't trust my brain for long term information storage and retrieval. I also think better when I write. Short term memory is too constrained]] - [[I don’t want to throw anything out. At least not yet. I might change my mind, I tell myself]] - [[I go through dozens of notebooks every year - Richard Branson]] - [[I hate writing, I love having written]] - [[I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter]] - [[I never understand anything until I have written about it]] - [[I shut up and wrote twenty-three more]] - [[I use journaling as a tool to clarify my thinking and goals. The paper is like a photography darkroom for my mind]] - [[I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means]] - [[I write to give myself strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I’m afraid of]] - [[I'm a writer and I live in imagination to survive in reality]] - [[Ideas that are easy to understand are easy to spread]] - [[If a note clarifies your thought processes or improves your mood, and never gets looked at again, it was worth making]] - [[If I don’t write it down immediately, I forget it right away. If I put it into a sketchbook, I never forget it and I never have to look it up again]] - [[If writing is thinking then what happens if AI is doing the writing and reading]] - [[If you can think and speak and write, you are absolutely deadly. Nothing can get in your way. Writing is the most powerful weapon you can possibly provide someone with]] - [[If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that]] - [[If you don't learn anything from writing an essay, don't publish it]] - [[If you think without writing, you only think you're thinking]] - [[If you want to write, then just write]] - [[If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth writing]] - [[If you write 3 notes a day, you could have more than 1K within a year]] - [[In order to write about life first you must live it]] - [[It’s enormously satisfying to be confident enough in your writing to reject a robot’s fixes]] - [[Know your category, and you’ll know where readers 'fit' you in their own minds]] - [[Literature is a wonderful profession, because haste has no part of it. Whether a really good book is finished a year earlier or a year later, makes no difference]] - [[Main value of a habit of writing]] - [[Modern writing isn't created. It's assembled]] - [[Most notes are write-only. Created once, never read again. Smart notes are building blocks. Created once, used forever]] - [[Murder your darlings]] - [[Never hesitate to update or remove existing notes. The world changes all the time, your knowledge evolves, and your notes only reflect your thinking at a given point in time]] - [[Not all writing is worth reading. Just because someone can put words on a page doesn’t mean they are worth reading or add value. Every minute you waste reading something bad is a minute that could've been spent reading something great]] - [[Note-taking is, in a sense, the inverse of lecture delivery]] - [[One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple]] - [[People need to write more to think more clearly. But many think about it the other way around]] - [[People think that you have to be inspired to write. Actually, you have to write to be inspired]] - [[People think they know what they should write, and what will resonate. But all they have are assumptions]] - [[Practicing in public is what separates aspiring writers from professional ones]] - [[Reading is for gaining knowledge. Notetaking is for retaining wisdom]] - [[Reading without writing misses 90% of the benefits]] - [[Start with writing. The rest will follow. Clear writing means clear thinking, which makes speaking clearly much easier]] - [[Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world]] - [[Taking notes frees up your mind in the moment, and enables you to organize thoughts you can leverage in the future]] - [[The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe]] - [[The better you're able to express your ideas, the more clearly you think about those ideas]] - [[The book is to be read in silence by the reader, and it's written in silence by me. I don't need to know what it sounds like out loud. I need to know what it reads like]] - [[The broader you are, the more confusing you are. Your content needs to resonate. And to resonate, it has to be specific]] - [[The first draft is just you telling yourself the story]] - [[The Internet favors what’s fast]] - [[The key to great writing is ordinary words and simple sentences]] - [[The size of your audience is directly proportional to the size of the question you're answering]] - [[The solution to an overactive mind is adopting a writing habit]] - [[The written word is the strongest source of power in the entire universe]] - [[There are two types of writers today. Those who use data to inform and improve their writing, and those who fail]] - [[There is no way to write a six-page narratively structured memo and not have clear thinking]] - [[There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed]] - [[Thinking clearly begins with writing. We need to externalize thoughts to make sense of them]] - [[To write a great book, you must first become the book]] - [[To write is to love life]] - [[To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man]] - [[Treat ideas like cattle, not like pets]] - [[Turn your writing into a data mining machine]] - [[Understanding comes in naturally. Speaking comes out naturally. Reading comes in naturally. Writing comes out through study]] - [[Useful writing tells people something true and important that they didn't already know, and tells them as unequivocally as possible]] - [[We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master]] - [[What keeps me writing is the idea that what I write can change what my readers think and, by extension, change the world]] - [[When we read, another person thinks for us. We merely repeat his mental process]] - [[When you are consumed by thoughts, write. When you are uninspired, read]] - [[When you write a note, consider it as a draft forever. Never hesitate to update or remove existing notes]] - [[When you're writing a story, you're creating a movie inside the reader's brain]] - [[Where you should be writing today isn’t necessarily where you should be writing tomorrow. The digital landscape is always changing]] - [[Wisdom starts with words]] - [[Words matter. Your words (what you say) and style (how you say it). are your most cherished (and, yet, undervalued) assets]] - [[Write ideas, not documents]] - [[Write more. It has more to do with thinking better than writing better, although the latter is a side-effect of the former]] - [[Write today. Edit tomorrow]] - [[Write what you know]] - [[Write your thoughts down. No complexity will help if your thoughts remain only inside your head]] - [[Writers are people who hate to write]] - [[Writers die twice—when they breathe their last breath, and when they cease being read]] - [[Writing about a decision forces you to put words to your blind spots, causing you to confront reality and see where you don't fully understand the process behind your decision]] - [[Writing brings clarity]] - [[Writing enables us to practice reasoning]] - [[Writing help channeling your thoughts. It brings clarity where the mind alone may struggle]] - [[Writing improves your thinking because words on the page have infinite patience. To write is to freeze an idea so you can play around with it, step away from it, and see it with fresh eyes. Hard to do that with the ideas in your head]] - [[Writing is a way of finding out. Finding out what to think, and what to build]] - [[Writing is a way of finding out. Rewriting is the key to improved thinking]] - [[Writing is a way to express and purify thoughts]] - [[Writing is about changing the ideas of others, not sharing your own ideas. Nobody cares about what you think]] - [[Writing is an insurance against ephemerality]] - [[Writing is formalized thinking]] - [[Writing is nature's way of telling us how sloppy our thinking is]] - [[Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards]] - [[Writing is photography with a pen]] - [[Writing is projecting your intent forward. It’s manifesting a thought into the reality of others]] - [[Writing is the process by which we discover we don’t really know what we are talking about]] - [[Writing is understanding]] - [[Writing makes you smarter because it easier to lie to yourself with thoughts in your mind than words on a page]] - [[Writing online requires an unrelenting commitment to consistency]] - [[You don’t imagine something first and then write it down. It’s through the act of writing that ideas make themselves known]] - [[You don't need a better note-taking system, you need a practice]] - [[You don't need another note-taking app. You need a knowledge system]] - [[You don't need permission to start writing]] - [[Your notes only reflect your knowledge and thinking at a given point in time. Each note is bound to become outdated or useless at some point]] - [[Your writing can only be as good as the best stuff you’ve read]] - [[Your writing is unique, and so are you]]