Going through my RSS feed this morning, there’s a lot of talk about blogging in 2024 again, and also mention of people who don’t necessarily want to be tied into WordPress, or the apparently very complex static-site generator things. Nabil’s collation is the one in front of me right now.
Blot is an obvious choice. It’s cheap and it’s dead simple. If all one wanted to do was text and photos, it’s really the only choice. It’s also very well supported. You can probably make it do all kinds of things, but here’s the thing – Blot turns a folder into a website. Your Dropbox, your Google Drive or Git. You drop your text documents or your images into the folder and they publish.
If I didn’t need a broader range of tools for my own notebooking practice, this site would be on Blot. My identity site is on Blot.
it’s easy, robust, and, frankly, it’s really just dropping a txt file into a folder. You don’t need to go near anyone’s else’s web pages and programs and user interfaces. Learn the tiniest bit of HTML or Markdown for your links and inline images and you’re good to go. It’s five US dollars a month, which isn’t nothing, but it’s probably half the price of most other blogging solutions. And you’ll never lose what you wrote because it’s all in your own Dropbox or GDrive folder, copied back to whatever other storage solutions you use. There’s an almost zine-like vibe to Blot sites that I enjoy. Stripped back.
That’s https://blot.im/ for anyone who trips over this post and might be interested.
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