About

Hi, I’m Gina. This is my blog about ideas I’m circling around. I write it for myself, and for others looking to reconnect with the joy of making and sharing stuff, whether that’s art, software, or a great story.

Note to Self is about a realignment I’m going through in my life. I’m reprioritizing creativity over productivity, inner attunement over outer attainment, and joy as the business model. Here’s the longer backstory about what I’m doing here.

What you’ll find here

There are three main types of content on this site: posts, quotes, and links. Posts are my writing. Quotes are others’ words. Links point to work around on the web.

I’ll write about things I’m interested in, which include: weird and wonderful art and digital projects; creative practice, process and tools; craftsmanship; redefining success; healthier relationships with money; fulfillment as a motivator; and the process over the outcome.

I try to write in clear plain language. I’ll keep it brief to respect your time. I’ll use my own original photography versus stock or AI-generated art. You’ll be able to tell I’m not a professional photographer. I want this site to feel personal and custom versus slick and cookie-cutter. I miss that on the web these days.

As a classic bloggy blog, posts will be heavy on links and attribution. If you think I’ve missed giving credit where it’s due, please let me know and I’ll correct it asap.

Call-outs

Every few posts you’ll see a specially-styled kind of pinned post I refer to as a “call-out.” Call-outs highlight non-profit organizations, products, or services I recommend. I only feature organizations I have personally donated to, and products and services I have personally paid for in my call-outs.

Often call-outs contain an affiliate or referral link which kicks back fees or benefits to me if you use those links to sign up. In those cases, I will spell out what’s in it for you and me if you use that link.

How to use this site

This site has few features by design, but there are a couple things you can do.

• Subscribe: To get new posts in your feed reader of choice, subscribe to the Note to Self feed.

• Search: Press Cmd-/ to quickly search the contents of the site.

• Switch themes: This site has a light and dark theme and defaults to your system setting. To switch themes, tap the icon in the footer.

• Time-travel: Check out past posts in the archives. Here are posts, links, and quotes.

Mostly: Browse and enjoy. Take away what’s useful and leave the rest behind.

Contact me

I’d love to hear from you. You can send me a message on Bluesky, or via email to my usual username at Gmail. I’m interested in what you and your friends are working on, what inspires you, and what your creative process is like. I will read everything I receive, even if I can’t always reply.

Colophon

I launched this site in late 2024 on Bear, a wonderfully fast and minimal hosted blogging engine, which got me writing right away. When I wanted more features, I moved it to a static site generator.

Today, I draft posts in Obsidian, push the code and content to GitHub, which in turn pushes to Netlify, where Hugo generates the web site. It’s much more customized (and complicated) now.

Thanks for reading.