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I've been writing online for almost 10 years now https://podviaznikov.com/writings

The best part for me is receiving some random emails from time to time with people saying they liked my post or poem or something else.

I don't have expectations for those letters though. Intentionally I don't have google analytics on my site. When I did have it, it influenced how and what I was writing.

Now I just write for myself. And if my writing happens to be valuable to someone else - it's a bonus. Mostly I write when I want to offload some thoughts about some topic. When I finish thinking about something, I write it down and that topic is "closed" for a while.

Also, what helps me to write and publish is my setup. I changed setup many times. When there was friction to write and publish - I rarely did it.

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How long have you used https://montaigne.io/? Never heard about it before; very interested.

Love the simplicity of your site, by the way.

https://montaigne.io/ is my small project!

It's a third iteration of it.

For a few years I had following setup: 1. keep files in dropbox 2. sync them and publish automatically using montaigne.io

Now I switched and instead of Dropbox I use Apple Notes. Because it's easier to write, and mobile UI is better and it supports tables and images out of the box.

Very nice!

Apple Notes is a gem.

Cool, I just signed up. Is there no way to change your site's URL once you've picked it in settings? Can you use a custom domain or will it always be x.montaigne.io? The help page is empty - this would be a good place to put FAQs. FYI I'd be willing to pay for something like this as it tears down all excuses for me not to have a blog, and I'm sure many Apple users would share that sentiment.

Yes, it's possible to set custom domain name (email me using at the email in my profile) - it's a manual process for now.

Not possible for now to change default name though! You can either create new site with new name and delete this one (or again, email me).

Agree about FAQ! I started making FAQ https://docs.montaigne.io/faq but didn't finish it yet.

I agree with what others have mentioned; Apple Notes -> website is a really good idea! +1 for custom domain support

thanks!

custom domain support is there. That is how I ran my own site anyway. It just that it's a bit manual process for now. But I'll improve it.

This is awesome, I will give it a try

please try! I think there were several issues today - since new people started trying it, but they are fixed now.

Very cool. How does it work? AFAIK there's no Apple API's for this(?)

good question. I think blog post is required. But basically all the shared notes are synced to the apple minis in the cloud. and each apple mini writes local apple script to export notes.

does it make sense? can provide more details.

Ah, I wrote almost exactly this! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32146815

Also, I love the simplicity of your site. Cheers!

this is so cool! I also love Clojure

Does it have an RSS feed?

Yes. I can't find a link to it, but it's in the <head>, so parsers and browser extensions can see it

https://podviaznikov.com/feed.xml

cool that you found it!

Only added it yesterday.

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