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Sep 22, 2021

Despite popularising the horticultural metaphor of Seedling > Budding > Evergreen ratings on digital garden notes, I wish there were other varieties out there. Baking and carpentry metaphors would work just as well. Notes could be raw, half-baked, or roasted.

A set of tags showing different metaphorical rating systems. Top line is seedling, budding, and evergreen. Middle lines are baking metaphors – raw, gooey, and baked. Last line is carpentry metaphors – hacked, carved, and polished.

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Maggie

visting SFO

@Mappletons

Particularly like the idea of "carving" a post. Baking ideas brought to you by the latest episode of GBBO... 🍰 (If you're OOTL, these are potential "doneness" tags for blog posts, notes, or essays – a tag indicating how refined a piece of writing is)

9:01 PM · Sep 22, 2021Twitter Web App

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I've used "half-baked" on irshaadv.com for a while now... But haven't expanded the metaphor

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All metaphors are partial, reflect only some aspects. I'm not even sure we share the same mental model. Using metaphors only can hide this fact. What is OOTL?