The consensus on the question I posted before seems to be that it's okay to encourage travel, but that we need to encourage traveling BETTER, whether that means encouraging choosing trains over planes, taking longer trips, seeing things in a different way, etc.
My question now is HOW? How do I as a content creator do that? I mean, just lecturing people about sustainability or whatever isn't going to help. I'd love some PRACTICAL ideas on how to encourage better travel.
So far I'm trying - not always succeeding - to avoid writing about the places that are very popular and instead focusing on lesser-traveled places. I'm avoiding big general listicles and instead trying to write about much narrower topics. As much as possible, I'm traveling by train or bus rather than plane and that'll come through when I write about a place. Any other suggestions?
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Here's a really interesting project I discovered called "Paper Website" that allows you to take photos from your written journal and automatically turn it into a blog.
This project is not for everyone, but I feel it's a refreshing take on UX design and provides a unique way for people to create content offline. Just curl up with your journal by the pool, beach or mountain and write!
The app has more features planned including cursive handwriting and detecting partial content (you have to write line-by-line for now). So there's still a few improvements to be made.
👉 A travel blog published using Paper Website: weekinthepeaks.com
This is pretty sweet. I love writing and getting away from my laptop, but then I always think "oh man, I need to get this onto OneNote" etc.
My thoughts flow better off a pen than onto the keyboard, where I tend to procrastinate too much about what I write.
I think this has all sorts of uitlities even outside of blogging. Great project! 👏
I agree, pen and paper puts you in a moment free of distraction. It's akin to typing on a keyboard with no delete key, so I find writing has more planning and thoughtfulness involved.
I love solutions that bridge analog and digital, some call it reverse publishing - this is such a cool idea!
This is a great tool. Does it scan images too?