Really big changes are afoot on the writing front. Beginning this weekend, I started converting my daily writing and researching efforts over to using Safari instead of Google Chrome as a web browser. Yeah, I know, the death rattle of the open web is happening and I’m just now starting the process of changing browsers. This big change makes sense to me here and now in the moment and to that end I’m moving along the path to making the change complete. I’m even right now making the big switch from writing in Google Docs to using Pages on my MacBook Air for the very first time. 

This passage of prose was my first Pages writing effort. Right from the start, I moved the zoom setting up to 200% to really bring the content into focus on my MacBook Air screen. Outside of that change, everything else is just based on the vanilla out-of-the-box Pages setup. Naming the document and setting the save location to iCloud was easy enough. Right now, my initial reaction to this new word processing environment is to observe that it is very basic and, for the most part, paired down compared to Microsoft Word or Google Docs. It works well enough, and I’m going to commit to giving it a go moving forward. 

Maybe beyond changing up my word processing environment, it is time to get back to basics in terms of daily writing. My functional journal writing format has been essential to my efforts to be a reflective practitioner. Writing a little bit every day is a good method to actively engage in writing. For the most part, the process of daily writing begets more writing. Getting into the standard groove of producing daily content is an essential part of keeping the content flowing. That is the base level of building up content. Making sure that each block gets started is how the process is able to continue day over day into the end result of eventually building up to a perfect possible future state of evolved and interesting prose. At least that is how it is supposed to end up going. 

I had spent some time this week looking at the various WordPress Jetpack social sharing options. Right now, I have sharing set up to both Threads and Bluesky. Building out some sort of social sharing plan would make sense at this point, but really my strategy is just to share these weblog posts on two different platforms. Based on previous sharing efforts, neither of those automations yields anything really, so it is more of less a performative action at this point. A lot less than a valid plan and a little bit more than taking no action. At some point, I’m going to have to decide if building longer manuscripts is the way to go or focusing on writing better research notes could end up being a singular focus. 

I used the Pages Writing Tools to proofread this document. It made about 20 changes.