I wanted to make a website. And I never really started. At best, I bought a domain here and created my own 'under construction' page. But with the current situation (lockdown!) and with more time than ever (lol ha i wish!), I decided to give it another go.
My preliminary research for websites got me into Jekyll. Why not Wordpress, Squarespace, or any other CMS solution for that matter? At the time I wanted more freedom into how I was building the website.
At a glance, Jekyll seems simple, fast, free, and easily customizable. It seemed easy to use and easy to maintain. On top of that, it would provide me the chance to re-learn coding. Naturally, it seems like a reasonable option.
Everything was good until I finally started using it. I made a repo, figured out a decent workflow, and spent way too much time trying to set up the perfect environment. After that I spent way too much time re-learning the basics. Then too much time deciding on which template or which framework.
Given too much freedom, I ended up with too much procrastination, and too little time to create anything meaningful. I ended up with barely any results. I even found out that I hate writing in Markdown later on.
So I dropped the project. "Temporarily", I thought.
As I was reorganizing my Google Drive files, I suddenly had a notion to check out Notion—no kidding. Immediately, I created an account and started experimenting.
Building a website with Notion was not even on my mind then, but I just felt like I needed to produce something to balance the recent overdose of digital consumption. So I explored the idea of documenting my digital journey during coronavirus (results here). And the first few hours of Notion blew my mind. I was inspired and found myself too excited to sleep! It was because I started producing more than I was procrastinating!
On top of that: