Realizing how my clogs logs idocs can help me overcome my fear of writing

Overcoming Writing Anxiety with creative logs, logging, idocumenting aka interstitial journaling in my zettelkasten

here’s my recent clog today that made me realize how i suck at writing but working on made me realize that i can use interstitial journaling in the moment to overcome my fear of writing.

logging/clogging/idocumenting are terms we use in the class...but its one of the concepts i’ve learned from Bob and with fellow zettelcasters, in The System for Writing Master Course ›

this one concept made sense to me on how i could link my trains of thoughts within my zettelkasten.

i write bottom up. literary. i capture/reference my thoughts and build it up in an outline bottom up. this is because when i go back to this moment, when i scroll down, i can read my recent top log entries. which are mostly my main notes or topic notes. these are short summaries of what i did. or things to do next and what to focus on my writing.

my march 20th, 2025 daily notes page in roam research

in this clog, i can see my trains of thought, referencing my moment of writing a piece that im having second thoughts of.

but let’s break it down.

(1) haha...this is at the bottom...this is where i started to capture what im thinking. ummm 🙈...embarrassing....skip to the next top block please.

(2) i link/block reference on what i was thinking of writing about

🟢 next....ooo...i captured a fleeting note, i was full and sleepy from eating...hahha

(1) next up, paragraphs of blocks of notes is where i start to realize my anxiety and how im realizing that its not so bad

(2) is a link to a note that i was referring to

(3) it would have been best to link the draft and insert the screenshot snippet. which it would look like this below. i add this when writing this post.

(1) is the block reference of the draft and (2) is the screenshot of that draft.

i took this screenshot and insert or pasted into this log. its something see and look back. reference how the draft iterated and evolved.

so yeah…back to my clog

i thought of organizing my blocks of notes like its a section/group, like a paragraph but still granular/atomic. practicing to make my notes/thoughts easily to link-up/useful and evolve as i grow my zettalkasten. for my future notes and for my future thinker self.

getting back to my clog…so yeah, i was getting frustrated and captured areas i need attention to. then i checked my note off for getting here.

hope this helps building your clogs (creative logging).

curios how you overcome your anxieties about writing, please comments bellow.

thank you Bob and to my fellow zettelkasters of zettel sunrise during our journey of System for Writing Master Course with Bob Doto