My personal tips for keeping up with daily posts: Building small systems to avoid being crushed on days when you have 'no ideas'
To be honest, 'writing every day' is just plain tough.
When you post every day, you will inevitably run into this at some point.
'I really have no ideas today'
'I have the time, but nothing comes to mind'
To put it like a gadget blogger,
trying to write at full power every time
trying to produce a 'masterpiece' every single time
tends to make your battery drain faster.
So, I lower the bar for 'daily posting' to
'a level where I just make sure to put out some form of output every day'
and have prepared a few small tricks to help with that.
In this post, I'll talk about those, and as a bonus at the end,
'a prompt to have AI generate topics for daily posts'
I'll leave that for you as well.
1. When you get stuck, accept that 'it's okay to let AI come up with ideas'
First of all, this is the biggest relief.
'Don't try to do the brainstorming all by yourself'
Modern AI can analyze
your account URL
the trends of the articles you've written so far
Your mood for the day or the time you have available
If you input these, it will churn out plenty of
title ideas
heading structures
lightweight one-line themes
or similar.
In other words,
on days when you feel like you have no ideas,
outsourcing the entire process of brainstorming ideas
is actually a better way tokeep up with daily posting.
Of course,
you are the one who decides which topic to pick
and you are the one who writes it in your own words
—that premise remains unchanged, but
the pain of squeezing out the first line from scratch
is something I believe you can let AI take over for you.
2. Use holidays, anniversaries, and 'What day is it today' as easy hooks
When writing something every day,
Marine Day
Mountain Day
Health and Sports Day
Tanabata, Christmas, Valentine's Day
You should actively use topics that come from the calendar like these.
For example,
“Marine Day!!!!”
→ Stories about photos taken at the beach / Stories about places I want to go this summer“Since today is apparently ◯◯ Day”
→ Stories about gadgets/books/episodes related to that
Like this, you can decide at the title stage that “this will do for today”.
What's important for daily posting is,
“how to lower the hurdle to starting the actual writing”
so,
public holidays are a source of relief, thinking “at least I can get one post out of this”
“What day is it today?” websites are effectively “free idea notebooks”
is the kind of attitude I use them with.
3. Schedule with the premise of mixing “major works” and “mini-logs”
The most dangerous thing when trying to continue daily posting is
“trying to write a serious 2,000 to 4,000-character article every day”
doing that.
If you do that,
days when school, part-time work, and assignments pile up
days when you aren't feeling well
will break you in one go.
So, I roughly
Days to write thoroughly → Reviews, spending logs, longer reflections
Days to post lightly → Off-shots, recent updates, photos + short text
look at my calendar with the premise of mixing these.
“I only have 30 minutes to write today” → A day for mini-logs focused on one theme
“I can write for about 2 hours today” → A day to dedicate to gadget articles or spending philosophy articles
By simply accepting that
“daily updates” and “daily masterpieces” are different things, it makes things much easier.
Bonus: A prompt example for getting AI to generate “daily post ideas”
Finally, as a bonus—or rather, something close to the format I actually use myself—I’ll leave a prompt example here.
By just rewriting this a little and sending it, you can get everything from
title ideas
heading structures
balance between light/heavy posts
all at once.
You are an assistant for a blogger who posts daily on note. My note account is “○○○○○○○○○○” and the URL is https://note.com/（your ID here）. I write about: ・Gadget reviews ・Spending logs ・Talks on money management and behavioral economics ・Daily snapshots and travel logs. Today’s conditions are as follows: ・Estimated writing time: I want to write in about ○ minutes (e.g., 30 minutes to 1 hour) ・Estimated character count: ○○ to ○○ characters (e.g., 1000 to 2000 characters) ・Mood: Either “want to write lightly” or “want to reflect thoroughly” (specify one) ・Theme I’d like to touch on if possible: e.g., Marine Day, a book I’m currently into, a story about my part-time job, etc. Based on these conditions, please provide: 1) 3 title ideas for today’s note 2) A brief synopsis for each (2-3 lines) 3) A label for whether it’s a “light post” or “heavy post”. Please make them match the style and themes of my past notes.
If you send this every morning or the night before,
you can immediately decide “what to write today”
you can significantly reduce the “fretful time before you start writing”
so it is quite an excellent tool for lowering the hurdle of daily posting.
Conclusion: Daily posting is about 'systems' rather than 'guts'
When people talk about posting every day, there is a strong image of
guts
spirit
motivation
being the way to get through it, but after actually continuing it, I feel it is a battle of
'how much of a system can I prepare to make things easier for myself'.
how much of a system can I prepare to make things easier for myself
I feel it is a battle of that.
Involve AI in brainstorming ideas
Use holidays or 'What day is it today' as hooks
Schedule with the premise of mixing mini-logs and serious articles
As you gradually add these things, daily posting will drop in difficulty from
a 'reckless challenge' to 'a slightly difficult habit'level.
I am still in the process of trial and error myself, but I would be happy if this could be some kind of hint for people who think, 'I want to try writing every day, but I'm worried if I can keep it up'.
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