For the past several years, my blog's primary emphasis has been posting trip reports of selected ATV trails, hiking trips, and peak bagging results. I have interspersed between these reports, the occasional blog article on productivity, methodologies, and other items of interest to myself.
My three-part series on Todoist as a Bullet Journal has received more attention than any other post I've created. While notoriety has never been my goal with these essays, I have attempted to drive visitors to the site to attract attention to my wife's beautiful Jewelry creations.
Many of the rocks Linda has cut, polished, wire wrapped, or silversmith into stunning works of art was collected on our hiking trips; I have wanted to connect those pieces with reports on how and where Linda found the original rough stones used in her process.
The trip articles will not change, and I have many backlog reports that have yet to be published.
What will change is a much more significant presence of the non-trip narrative variety. I will attempt not to talk politics; frankly, the topics have become arduous, and viewpoints tend to blanket entire ideologies without regard to individualism. Even individual authors trying to point out this broad generalization lash out with their own blankets. Having now thrown a blanket of my own over respective authors, it should illustrate why I hope to stay away from these topics.
I hope to publish a wider variety of ideas centered on but not limited to productivity. I know this can feel like an excessively worn-out topic of our time; however, the new tools and methodologies are exciting to explore.
The first blog series I plan to write is an in-depth look at a Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) system using TheBrain software as the base. TheBrain is not new, but it has been consistent in its efficiency and design quality for the fifteen years I have used it. Keeping pace with the times, TheBrain has changed to keep the platform fresh and up to date. But, of course, newer platforms will need to stand the test of time, and with dozens on the market, picking the right one can be a gamble.
Interspersed between trip reports and series will be commentaries on anything I find interesting. For example, I recently concluded a three-year review of Niklas Luhmann's Zettelkasten methodology. Although the platform doesn't fit nicely into far-reaching personal time management or life operating systems[1], it does provide some unique tools that fit nicely into the broader perspective of a PKM system.
Nothing I write will serve as a definitive answer. I admire authors who can reevaluate something they wrote and, in effect, say, "yeah, that didn't work out quite as well as I thought it might." I hope these essays will be explorations into interesting life sidelines, many of whom we would pay more attention to if we had everything else in good order.
While hiking along the "shadowed cliffs," Leonardo da Vinci stumbled across the opening to a cave. After a short time, da Vinci notes, "there arose in me two things, fear and desire - fear because of the menacing dark cave, and desire to see whether there were any miraculous thing within." [2]
Hiking, peak bagging, ATV riding, and writing are ways I force myself down these less-traveled roads. So let's go find something miraculous.
References:
[1] [Zettelkasten, Linking Your Thinking, and Nick Milo's Search for Ground | The Daily Pony (bobdoto.computer)](https://writing.bobdoto.computer/zettelkasten-linking-your-thinking-and-nick-milos-search-for-ground/)
[2] Gelb, M. (2004). *How to think like Leonardo da Vinci: Seven steps to genius every day*. New York, NY: Delta Trade Paperbacks. p.259.