Challenging assumptions

My behavior in recent weeks has caused me to challenge many of my basic assumptions around blogs, note-taking, and text editing. It's been weird and frustrating, but also fun.

Take blogging, for example. Blogs should be based on static Markdown files and hosted on my own server, right? Except recently I started using Blot.im again, which keeps the static part but offloads hosting to someone else. Then this week I started posting on Scribbles, which is hosted by someone else, and doesn't use static Markdown files. Even crazier, Scribbles doesn't use Markdown at all.

Speaking of files, all of my notes should be in Org-mode (.org) files, but short of that, they should at least be Markdown (.md). And yet, I've been taking notes using the Emacs howm package and putting everything in plain .txt files, like a Neanderthal.

Speaking of taking notes, all editors should use Vim-like key bindings. For Emacs, that means Evil mode everywhere. Except this morning I pulled all of my Evil bindings out of my config, and now I'm C-n'ing and C-p'ing like it's going out of style.

It's been strange living in Opposite Land, but it's helped me rethink some of the things I've told myself about how things should work. I don't know if any of it will stick, but I feel like the experiments are worth it, if only to show me different perspectives for a little while.