我的极简写作工具箱 My Minimal Writing Toolkit

写作十年，我的工具经历过一条抛物线：从嫌少，到嫌多，再回到少。现在整个"工具箱"只剩三样东西。它们被我用了两年，没有一次动过换掉的念头。

Ten years of writing, and my tools have traced a parabola: too few, then too many, then back to few. The whole "toolkit" is down to three items. Two years with them, and I have never once thought about replacing any.

第一，一个纯文本编辑器。不是笔记软件，不是云端写作平台，就是能打开 .txt 的东西。好处说出来平平无奇：文件永远是自己的，打开速度是零，没有格式来诱导你排版，句子只能靠句子本身站住。

First, a plain-text editor. Not a note app, not a cloud writing platform — just something that opens .txt files. The benefit sounds unremarkable: the files are always yours, startup time is zero, and with no formatting to tempt you, a sentence has to stand on being a sentence.

第二，一个按年份归档的文件夹。结构简单得近乎可笑：2026/10/why-i-blog.txt。不设标签，不装全文搜索——翻旧稿靠记忆和手翻。奇怪的是，正因为"找起来有成本"这件事存在，我反而记得住每一篇大致的位置。工具在替我们记忆之前，往往先替我们遗忘了。

Second, a folder archived by year. The structure is comically plain: 2026/10/why-i-blog.txt. No tags, no full-text search — finding old drafts runs on memory and finger-work. Strangely, precisely because finding costs something, I remember roughly where each piece lives. Before a tool helps us remember, it usually helps us forget.

第三，一支钢笔和一张纸。它们只在两个时刻使用：第一稿开不了头的时候，和第二稿改不动的时候。纸会诚实地告诉你一个段落有多长，墨水会诚实地告诉你一个词有多懒惰。

Third, a fountain pen and a sheet of paper. Used at exactly two moments: when the first draft refuses to begin, and when the second draft refuses to move. Paper honestly shows you how long a paragraph is; ink honestly shows you how lazy a word is.

我没有"效率秘诀"可以推销。恰恰相反，我想推销的是那个诚实的问题：这件工具是帮你想清楚，还是帮你觉得自己在想清楚？

I have no "productivity secret" to sell. What I want to hand over, instead, is the honest question: does this tool help you think clearly, or does it help you feel that you're thinking clearly?

工具越少，习惯越容易长出来。

Fewer tools, easier habits.

这个小站本身就是上面那个答案的一部分：整个网站是手写的 HTML 和 CSS，没有构建工具，没有依赖，也没有"以后可以做成平台"的伟大计划。它的上限很低，但它属于我——像一间没有装智能锁的书房。

This site is part of the answer itself: hand-written HTML and CSS, no build tools, no dependencies, and no grand plan to "someday turn it into a platform." Its ceiling is low — but it is mine, like a study whose door has no smart lock.

（附注：工具清单每年都会变，但三件套已经两年没变了。这大概是它们能留在清单里的理由。）

(A footnote: the list changes every year, but the trio has held for two. That persistence is probably the only qualification that earns a place on the list.)