Like I Was Saying...
Truth be told, I’ve been a little bit off this week with Skating the River.
Squarespace hosts this blog and I like it a lot. Squarespace also has a mobile App that’s pretty handy. You can do almost anything on the mobile App that you can do on your laptop. I think there’s some limitations on building a website, but that’s about it.
But the cool thing is you can update your blog on the mobile app.
Most days I’ll Skate the River in Scrivener on my phone. Then, I’ll post it via the Squarespace mobile app. It’s been working for quite awhile, until earlier this week.
Somewhere around Monday or Tuesday, I tried to upload a picture from my phone and Squarespace requested permission to access my pictures.
After I did this, all hell broke loose on the mobile app. It took me to this wonky screen and I couldn’t access my blog via the mobile app and post my blog.
I tried everything I could think of from uninstalling the app, restarting my phone, and reinstalling the app. Nothing.
I did this several times and still nothing.
I finally contacted customer support, but there wasn’t an immediate fix so they Squarespace kicked it up to another level of support.
They asked me to do a few things, but it still hasn’t worked itself out. I tried to follow the instructions as best I could, but nothing worked.
Needless to say, this has thrown off my cadence in posting blogs.
Now, I still write my five hundred words, but just haven’t been able to post them until I log into my laptop the next day.
So technically, I’ve continued to write Skating the River, but just haven’t posted them on the day their written.
Is that cheating?
Kinda, sorta, but not really, but yeah.
The most important things is that I get my words in.
I did have a “gig” tonight of sorts.
I took photographs of my nieces’ twenty-first birthday party, so that was cool.
Other than that, it was pretty lackluster day.
I need to figure out how to take better notes.
That’s all there is to it.
I like using the Notes App on my phone.
I do have note envy. There was this one co-worker that took awesome notes. I mean, she wrote everything down and her notes were well organized.
I’ve tried so many note taking apps its not even funny, but I like simple and have stuck with Apple Notes. I watched a few videos and it could help me quite a bit, but its just the discipline of taking notes.
I think the other thing that kills me about notes is its formatting.
It just seems so dry at times, but the important part isn’t the font or what it looks like, its the information I’m taking down.
It’s trying to articulate what’s in my head. Like today, I think I’ve got my talk down a month out, but I haven’t written a word or have written a not about it and well, that’s not a good thing.