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PermanentNotes

This was supposed to be a part of a bigger journal entry, but I found that I had more things to say on this topic, so it gets its own dedicated entry.

Blog Posts vs Notes on a Digital Garden

An interesting observation I've made is that I bookmark blog posts, but I do not bookmark notes from digital gardens.

Does this mean that blog posts provide more valuable information? Not necessarily, but they have their advantages from a reader's perspective.

I think it's just easier to settle on a blog post I want to read, than to pick notes to read from a huge digital garden. It kinda relates to the article I read about Overchoice. It is hard to make a choice, when there's too many choices to make. And that's usually the situation with notes on a digital garden. The chronological or reverse chronological order of blog posts, which is looked at as a bad thing nowadays, is what makes it easier for me to pick something to read.

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