a newsletter.. finally!!
Introducing puddles, waves, and reflective thoughts, a digest-style email sent to members with links to new posts, brief notes, & reading time estimates. Members have access to the archive, which is now available.
puddles, waves, and reflective thoughts
Up until now, I didn't have a newsletter to send out when I originally created posts. I knew that I didn't want to send out the posts themselves but to send links to them as part of a digest instead.
puddles, waves, and reflective thoughts is a digest-style email sent to members with links to new posts, brief notes, & reading time estimates. Subscribers receive a digest-style email no more than once a week, and have access to an archive of past newsletters. The archive is now setup, and backdated newsletters beginning in February are published there.
The date in the title is either the backdate, originally placed there for transparency, or a repeat of the publication date, which is important for other reasons. [1]
Each post in the newsletter and the newsletter itself has three different reading time estimates. The first time estimate is based on 275 words per minute, [2] the other two are 120 and 200 words/min.
These are three options that create a rough range. I don't want to say one is fast and another slow because there are many other ways to describe each. Instead, I created a range in an effort to better address the reality that people approach reading with different needs and wants that vary with time and other factors.
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notes
The theme I am using for ghost, Ruby, doesn't display a date when it displays posts. Without a date in the title, the posts would appear identical. So the workaround also turned out to be an unexpected solution to a future problem that didn't occur because it had already been addressed. This is a learning process for me.↩︎
A calculation using 275 words/min for text plus a calculation based on the number of images is computed using a helper in ghost, which other themes use. I could not use the helper because I don't have access to customize scripts. But I kept 275 to be on one end of the range. And I setup the calculations in a spreadsheet.↩︎
