I wanted to define a continuum of blog posts, so I could work things up gradually. What are the basic elements that have to be present for a set of drafty bits to become a real post? What are the extras that make a post really effective?
So in the spirit of learning the sketching tool GoodNotes5, I set out to make a diagram of a blog post, with the minimal elements and my typical extras.
Tags are good, and references, citations, and follow-up questions are useful.
I also want to include lessons I learn about the tools I use to create the post.
I thought it was going to be more complicated than that, but it’s not. This is very helpful to me as I populate this site with individual posts during July, gradually liberating ideas from my notebooks, Blackboard, and file folders. I can start a draft with any one or two of the basic elements, and publish it (privately maybe) when there are three. (This one has all three, now that I’ve written the text. Yay. )
And tags will facilitate creating some larger structures as they emerge. That’s work for later. Right now, I’m just populating this with a lot of basically free-standing posts.
But of course I can always add the other parts, too.
And I shall.
Those will be on the second “page” of each post.