When to "kill" blog drafts?
Context
Like most people writing on a blog, I have a "drafts" folder where my work-in-progress articles are kept. I would visit this draft on a regular basis, update some articles, possibly finish one or two, then move them to the "finished" folder, until I publish it here.
But what is an "acceptable" lifetime for a draft article?
As you can see below, I have some articles there for a while:
I have one draft in there for 3.5 years, 3 are from 2023, and 4 from 2024!
And to be honest, I have the feeling that the more I wait, the less I am willing to finish them.
Initially, I created those drafts as an idea came, but let's face it, if I do not revisit them, there's a few chances they will ever be published.
New Rule
OK, so with the above explained, I will now kill delete any draft that is
older than 6 months: if I don't manage to finish it in that time frame, I will
probably never do it.
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