--- title: "What were all those bullets for?" date: 2014-10-23T12:00:00-07:00 url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2014/10/23/wtfomgbullets/ author: Les Orchard tags: [metablogging, writing, opml, tinderbox] --- # What were all those bullets for? Did you see [that thing I just posted][bullets]? Weird. Back when I used [Dave Winer's OPML Editor][opml], I used to have [a daily habit][habit] of opening a new outline and popping over to it throughout the day to collect random thoughts. I might build on one thing or another, and sometimes a full blog post would sprout out of one of them. Otherwise, I might just hit publish and put the whole outline as-is on the web. I also tried using [Eastgate Tinderbox][tinderbox] for awhile like this. That was interesting for capturing constellations of thoughts, but I found it harder to put that into [a web-ready form][tinderblog] without reworking things into proper posts. An outline just seems to work as a bullet list. [tinderblog]: http://decafbad.com/recaffeinated/ These days, this sort of microblogging happens on Twitter. But, that's like dropping seeds into a running stream. In they go, and then they're gone. The impulse to get something out of my head is satisfied, but I never really come back to look at what came out [or cultivate more][today]. [today]: http://blog.lmorchard.com/2014/10/ [bullets]: http://blog.lmorchard.com/2014/10/23/wtfomgbullets/ [tinderbox]: http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/ [opml]: http://home.opml.org/ [habit]: http://decafbad.com/bucket/?start=77&count=7