Writing FolderWriting by Alexander Nikolov
Tools I Use
A running list of the tools I use day to day — updated occasionally.
Writing
- Obsidian for notes and drafts
- This blog for anything worth publishing
Development
- Neovim for most code editing
- WezTerm as a terminal
Reading
- Kindle for books
- RSS reader (NetNewsWire) for feeds
Nothing exotic. The less time I spend configuring tools, the more time I have to actually use them.
…On Reading
Some thoughts on reading books slowly and taking notes by hand.
There’s a version of reading that’s about accumulation — finishing books, tracking counts, filling a shelf. And there’s another version that’s about something else: slowing down enough to let a sentence land, to disagree with a paragraph, to put the book down and think for a while.
I’ve been trying to do more of the second kind.
The trick I keep coming back to is writing by hand while I read. Not summaries. Just reactions — a word, a question, a push-back. It slows everything down in a useful way.
…Hello World
This is the first post on Writing Folder. A place to think out loud, share things I’ve been reading, and write about software, ideas, and whatever else seems worth putting into words.
More to come.
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