Thank you for posting this, I often have a bunch of scambled thoughts for outlines of posts or notes that I'd taking each week that never end up being fleshd out into longer posts no matter what I do. Maybe I should start doing more like this and just clean them up and post them as they currently exist.

I came across https://write.as and it seems great. In fact I use it to share one-off texts with few of my close friends. But there's no commenting and I don't want to use Disqus.

Is there any simpler workflow to use this - without Jekyll I mean?

An interesting alternative to Disqus might be Commento. https://gitlab.com/commento/commento

It's a SaaS or self-hosted commenting application written in Go. I also set this up myself last week https://pieterhollander.nl/post/commento .

Can you describe your workflow for this?

It's just basically me taking notes on the book that I'm currently reading (consciously limited this to 1 book at a time). I underline interesting things while I'm reading and then try to write up notes every weekend. This basically means that I go through the things I read again (some sort of spaced repetition), but this time I know what the interesting parts of it are already. Then it's just a case of going through them randomly some times over the week for more spaced repetition.

The implementation is just a bunch of markdown files in jekyll. (https://github.com/paramsingh/paramsingh.github.io)