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  Faint praise for categories: https://writingslowly.com/2026/09/27/faint-praise-for-categories.html

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  📷 A bluebottle (Physalia utriculus), washed up on the beach. #photography #wildlife #Australia

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  Bookshops in Sydney. How's it going?: https://writingslowly.com/2026/09/27/bookshops-in-sydney-hows-it.html

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  Some close, others open, but more and more, bookshops are becoming venues for live events, and thereby contributing to the knitting together of communities of literacy and ideas. What’s happening where you are? Read more: Bookshops in Sydney: how’s it going? #BookShops #Sydney https://writingslowly.com/2026/09/27/bookshops-in-sydney-hows-it.html

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  Now you can listen to Writing Slowly: https://writingslowly.com/2026/10/02/now-you-can-listen-to.html

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  Apocaloptimism, is that even a word?: https://writingslowly.com/2026/10/05/apocaloptimism-is-that-even-a.html

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  What I'm writing in October 2026: https://writingslowly.com/2026/10/05/what-im-writing-in-october.html

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  Can you make tamagoyaki?: https://writingslowly.com/2026/10/06/can-you-make-tamagoyaki.html

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  Why is everyone going to Japan? That’s the question addressed by an episode of the Search Engine podcast. By ’everyone’, they implicitly mean Americans, which is odd since most visitors to Japan come from China. Still, it’s a very interesting discussion. https://www.searchengine.show/whys-everybody-going-to-japan/

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  A song from Canada you might enjoy: Goûtons du plaisir, from the album Au Coeur de l’Aube by Genticorum. https://genticorum.bandcamp.com/album/au-coeur-de-laube

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  Built-in support for the ‘Web of Markdown’?: https://writingslowly.com/2026/10/08/builtin-support-for-the-web.html

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  I’ve been enjoying these Meisho-zue (名所図会) prints from late 1700s Japan. They depict temples and other ‘famous places’, for pilgrims and armchair travelers. Notably they’re from the Shinbutsu-shūgō era (神仏習合), prior to 1868, when Buddhist and Shinto places of worship were still integrated. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100652043

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  "💬 “We seek to preserve peace by fighting a war, or to advance freedom by subsidizing dictatorships, or to ‘win the hearts and minds of the people’ by poisoning their crops and burning their villages and confining them in concentration camps; we seek to uphold the ’truth’ of our cause with lies, or to answer conscientious dissent with threats and slurs and intimidations… I can no longer imagine a war that I would believe to be either useful or necessary. I would be against any war.” –...

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  In Matt Bell’s excellent book on writing, Refuse to be Done, there’s a quote by Karen Russell, author of the excellent novels Swamplandia. and The Antidote. She says, "💬 “Writing a novel is kind of like scaling Mt. Everest and passing by your own bones on the way”." Respect is due, but I can’t help feeling it might not be quite that hard. #writing #climbing #writinglife https://www.mattbell.com/

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  📷 I’ve taken a few days out to walk the coast. It was… well, you can see for yourself what it was. This might explain why my writing here has been even slower than usual. But now I’m back, and normal service will resume shortly.

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  📷 In Brittany, France, there’s an area they call ‘La Côte du Granit Rose’ – the Pink Granite Coast. I was happy to find a corner of the New South Wales coast that’s really quite like it. Birubi Point at Anna Bay, NSW.

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  "💬 “Cut anything into tiny pieces and it all becomes a mass of confusion.” — Seneca, Epistulae Morales, 89.3. Cited by Michel de Montagne in ‘On Experience’ in The Essays: A Selection. Trans. M.A. Screech. London: Penguin Books, 2004. 3.13, 366." This is true, potentially, of writing notes. It’s too easy to produce fragmentary knowledge. The solution? Link your notes and create hub or structure notes (there is a difference — see Bob Doto’s post for details) that cluster separ...

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  "💬 “I still think the real revolution is to make the world safe for poetry, meandering, for the frail and vulnerable, the rare and obscure, the impractical and local and small.” – Rebecca Solnit" Via Bradley Andrews https://bradleyandroos.micro.blog/2026/10/19/this-from-rebecca-solnit-resonates.html

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  I’m delighted to be featured in Hyde’s intriguing series Under/Over, where bloggers are asked for their thoughts on what they find under-rated and over-rated. I have opinions on Zettelkasten, POSSE, solitude, journalling, pavlova(!) and more. Read on at https://lazybea.rs/ovr-076/. #indieweb

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  Notes about notebooks? Ulkar Aghayeva writes about the history of laboratory notebooks. Aghayeva, U. “A Brief History of Lab Notebooks.” Asimov Press (2026). DOI: 10.62211/52wg-76ye Source: Scott Nesbitt’s The Monday Kickoff - well worth subscribing to. #notetaking #notebooks #historyofscience https://www.asimov.press/p/lab-notebooks

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  Top level categories in my notes: https://writingslowly.com/2026/04/19/top-level-categories-in-my.html