Weekly Notes
Weekly notes is a genre where people chronicle their week on their blogs. Weekly notes are like a window. I love going through these, as they’re a steady stream of week on week happenings and progress in people’s lives. It shows people making efforts to improve: from basic things like learning to swim or drive, to planning long-term goals such as vacations, moving house, states, or even countries — and, in some cases, internal monologues, thoughts, and anxieties. These are like a constant nudge for me to work on myself, like them.
These are the weekly notes I read nowadays:
- https://adhavansivaraj.xyz/tags/weekly-notes/
- https://learningwala.in/tags/weekly-notes/
- https://thejeshgn.com/category/weekly-notes/
- https://shrayas.com/tagged/weeknotes
- https://tracydurnell.com/category/weeknotes/
- https://sathyabh.at/
Most are there on Thejesh’s weekly note planet which autoupdates when new posts arrive, usually starting on Friday evenings, and by Monday, almost everyone has posted.
It reminds of a word from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows - Kenaway :
the longing to see how other people live their lives when they’re not in public; wishing you could tune in to the raw feed of another human existence, in all its messiness and solitude—shimmying in place while brushing their teeth, squabbling over where to put the shoes, talking out their problems on solitary commutes—if only to give you something to compare your own life against, and figure out whether you’re bizarrely normal or normally bizarre.
Close enough.