Notebooks over dashboards

Many personal sites drift toward dashboards, but the more durable shape is often much simpler.

Plain pages age better

A dashboard can feel impressive at first, but it also creates a maintenance burden. Over time, ordinary pages, indexes, and notes usually survive longer than status-heavy surfaces.

Readability scales better than novelty

If the site still feels coherent after months of updates, that usually means the structure is strong and the presentation is modest. The opposite tends to age quickly.