Welcome To Your Website

Now, it’s not much. But it should be enough to get you started. What I wanted to give you was a place for you to write. Of course, you could still post things on Facebook, but it’s long since moved from a platform to share ideas and become a platform for distractions and attention grabbing. I wanted to provide something that only changed when you wanted it to. A place you could sit and make your own. Here are the goals I had when building it out:

Here is the system I came up with.

Facebook is one of many examples of the places you could use. Opening any text editor would allow you to record information there. However, in order to actually facilitate writing, I also needed to provide some tools to make it simple and convenient. The notebook is part of that. Three critical sections are included:

  1. One Line Per Day: Which offers a section to create prompts and fill them in, one line per day. I’ve used this for recording memories I didn’t want to forget and for generating project ideas.
  2. Habit Tracker: The reason I got you this specific notebook. We’ve talked about this before as something Jerry Seinfeld did for writing his comedy. Forcing him to continue daily. Turns out that’s based on some psychology work done back in the 60’s around forming good habits. Simply list the ‘habits’ you want to track. These can be any actionalble item. Then mark each day you complete it.
  3. Notebook Section: I would recommend this as your rough draft area. It creates a simple source to scribble any thoughts you have. And easily review your last thoughts the next time you open it up. This can help create a kind of continuous momentum if that helps. If not, it’s easy to use however you like.

(Further reading in notebook)

Editing

You can use the editor on GitHub to maintain and preview the content for your website in Markdown files. Or use any device that has A) a text editor, and B) git. I can help you with that if you want.

Whenever you commit to this repository, GitHub Pages will run Jekyll to rebuild the pages in your site, from the content in your Markdown files.

I encourage you to click into the editor link and play around with the posts. Once you get a feel for the format, you’re more than welcome to delete this Welcome post (or any others I started as demonstration), as you won’t really need those.

Markdown

Markdown is a lightweight and easy-to-use syntax for styling your writing. It includes conventions for

Syntax highlighted code block

# Header 1
## Header 2
### Header 3

- Bulleted
- List

1. Numbered
2. List

**Bold** and _Italic_ and `Code` text

[Link](url) and ![Image](src)

For a terrible example of what blog posts can look like, check out this Test Blog Post.

For more details on Markdown, see GitHub Flavored Markdown.

Jekyll Themes

Your Pages site will use the layout and styles from the Jekyll theme you have selected in your repository settings. The name of this theme is saved in the Jekyll _config.yml configuration file.

I chose a default theme for you (Cayman), but have since updated it to provide a more personal look and feel. If you try to change the theme, it will almost defnitely break things. Let me know if you want anything to look a little different and I can work on that.

Support or Contact

I will message you credentials to access your account. Feel free to change those if you want. We can discuss technical details and how-tos later. Your official domain also comes with an email account that I’ll link you to. Let me know if you have any issues or your want to change anything. I haven’t had time to fully learn the system, but I know enough to customize it.

For official support or anything you want to check out yourself there is documentation or contact support available through Github.