What's so great about having my own website is that I can put in new sections or features whenever I want. My website is basically a bunch of text, some of it hyperlinked, so technically I could have done that on my old blog, but now I can also decide literally where things go and how we get there.
For the last few years I was saving articles on Pocket (and before that Evernote), but I had enough concerns about privacy that I couldn't justify the cost anymore. Earlier this year, I removed all of my articles and downloaded it to a spreadsheet. There was a lot of culling, but I still had, I believe, over 200 articles. Great that it was saved somewhere, but I knew I'd lose visibility of it in a spreadsheet.
Yesterday I had the idea that I could move it to a page here--why not? I'm not linking it in the top navigation right now--it's getting a little busy, and I don't know how to do sub-navs yet--but I can still link to it from another page. You can now find my Saved Articles (well, here, obviously), but also linked from my Book Recommendations.
I am even more excited that I saved myself hours of work by figuring out how to concatenate the html code I wanted from my spreadsheet (you know, after I spent an hour doing it by hand for the first 55). Look at me, effectively using 20th century technology (and they said it couldn't be done).
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