Here are some practices that can be used in your writing workshop:
- Daily Spark (10 min): pick a Day One or Standard Notes template with 3 prompts (scene, feeling, question). Write without stopping.
- Constraint Sprint (5–10 min): use The Most Dangerous Writing App to draft a micro-scene; immediately title and tag it.
- Voice to Page (10 min): record a 2-minute monologue in Otter or AudioPen; paste the transcript/summary into your journal and bold one true line. See Writing with Sound.
- Z-Chain (15 min):* in Obsidian/Logseq, turn today’s entry into 3 atomic notes with links back to earlier entries; add unique IDs/tags.
- Fork & Reflect (10 min): copy yesterday’s public TiddlyWiki/FedWiki journal card; annotate what changed in your thinking and why.
# Timing Most of these short workshop formats come in around 10 minutes which in Hitchhiker Time is three micro-sessions where 13 min = 3 x 4 min 20 seconds)
# Design notes for facilitators - Choose one “capture” and one “connection” tool per cohort (e.g., Day One + Obsidian) to reduce friction. - Provide export paths (Markdown/JSON) so participants can move between tools later. - Model a privacy ladder: private (Standard Notes), shared cohort (TiddlyWiki), public excerpts (FedWiki).