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Feedle lets you search RSS feeds by topic, leading me to discover that Anna Havron’s Analog Office blog perfectly compliments my own work. The Wonderland222 planner is what I’d buy if I was in the market for a paper planner.
Forget what RSS stands for, what I needed to know as an ignorant noob was what it does. Recently I found out!
Find the feed, follow what the person behind it does in the same place as everyone else whose feeds you’re following. It’s like a read-it-later curated newsletter feed where I choose the content.
I’m 2 years old in Mastodon years, but only 2 weeks old as an RSS user. And oh, what a boon!
I mention Mastodon because that’s where I felt the push to RSS. People were talking about Feedle with enthusiasm, and proclaiming the benefits of RSS feeds until I could no longer ignore them.
Feedle.world tells me it’s a search engine for blogs and podcasts, and that every search is an RSS feed. Entering plain text into their search box brought up a mixed bag of results, but several of them were absolute gems. Like Analog Office, by Anna Havron.
My not-so-secret agenda: to help you go online because you want to, not because you have to.
I write here about how to selectively untether yourself from the digital world, by thinking and organizing with paper-based tools and systems.
—Anna Havron
Anna also considers plain text a given when needing to store information digitally. I won’t be changing what I do to fit Anna’s approach and she wouldn’t want to take on mine, yet we are kindred spirits because the principles we’re committed to are in perfect harmony.
The RSS reader more people recommended over all of them is NetNewsWire. I’ve added Analog Office and am working my way through the articles, savouring each one. Every single headline catches my attention.
Anna’s writing style is helping me to grow up as a writer; to tap more deeply into the vein of authenticity. She’s the real deal, and I’m so very pleased to have found another mentor!
I bought a stack of Tomoe River paper a few years ago, during my Hobonichi-admiring phase. Now I’ve never owned a Hobonichi, but I have designed, printed, and stitched my own version. It was a lot of work so that was a once-only affair.
Tomoe River paper is wonderful, as long as you can live with its see-through nature.
This post from Analog Office introduced me to a Tomoe River planner I didn’t know existed: the Wonderland222. It’s subtle, beautiful, compact, and quite pricey. I’ll be sticking with my handprinted, discbound dot grid A5 notebook and One Big Text File, but if I was buying a paper planner there’s no doubt in my mind that this is the one I’d get.
It’s been a rough week here in the land of first-world problems. Things kept breaking, and I didn’t have the knowledge or patience to fix it (and didn’t want to keep bothering kind, knowledgable peeps). Blot is great now that it’s working again, so I’m sticking with it for the time being.
And that right there is the advantage of working with a folder of Markdown files. All the important things are portable by their very nature!
Last night I sketched out the cover image for this post, to express what it feels like to move my home base from a corporation-owned, strata-controlled skyscraper, to a sweet little cottage in the woods. The signage isn’t neon, there are no popups, and the road to get there isn’t as well paved.
Still, it feels like the right time to set out on my own. Thank you for being here!
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