Hello all. This month has been more about planning than hacking. It’s always harder to feel productive when you’re organising and thinking, rather than spewing code, but I think it’s been useful.
I’ve started using Obsidian, which is easily the best markdown editor I’ve used, and does much else besides. All my writing starts there. My notes have always been in markdown, but to organise them I used to use a couple of commands from the VS Code plugin Dendron (now defunct, and forever a baffling choice for a YC startup).
One of those files is nearly twenty thousand words on Raven, accumulated over the last few years. It’s a mix of high-level design thoughts and details around things like error handling, laziness or caching. Most of it will turn into code. What doesn’t resemble the ravings of a madman will become blogs. The new note taking workflow has encouraged me to go back and reorganise a lot of disparate thoughts, and I imagine I’ll publish some drafts in this very newsletter.