101 blog posts ideas for your personal website

Inspired by James’s recent lists of 100 things you can do on your personal website, here’s a list of 100 blog posts you can write. They’re based on enthusiasm for blogging and writing, not SEO or career advancement like so many of these lists are.

I didn’t want to say content so I said blog post, but obviously, if you’re more of a video, podcast, static page or whatever else type of person, nearly everything still applies!

I also want to make it very clear, before we start, that you don’t need to have an active blog to be part of the personal web. A simple landing page with a way to contact you is a personal website. There is no pressure.

And now, let’s list 101 blog posts ideas for your personal website.

Recaps

1. A weekly recap of what you did
2. A monthly recap of what you did
3. A yearly recap of what you did (and what you’re looking forward to next year)
4. When time comes: revisiting posts made on this day/week X years ago

Hobbies

5. Overshare about your hobby
6. Share a DIY tutorial
7. Share a recipe you love
8. Talk about a hobby you’d like to pick up, but don’t know how or where
9. Brag about a milestone in something you’re learning
10. Update us on your gardening plans
11. Write in a language you’re learning
12. Share a project you’ve thought about but never actually created and share as much info as you can so that maybe someone else will pick it up and make it happen

Fun stuff

13. Reminisce on something nice that happened to you today
14. Remind people to drink water. (But first, drink a tall glass of water.)
15. Show a piece of furniture or decoration you love and tell us where it was made and why you love it
16. Share a food crime
17. Talk about your favourite ways of interacting
18. Talk about your favourite hot drink
19. Share a meme
20. Expose hilariously bad spam you received
21. Talk about the weather
22. Share a horrible story of one time you lost data and remind your reader to do backups. (Also, do a backup.)
23. Make a great pun (or post a dad joke. we can’t all be good at this.)
24. Share some family or otherwise oral history

Memories and introspection

25. Reflect on an important memory of yours
26. Create an account graveyard
27. Commemorate an anniversary
28. Talk about a concert you went to
29. Explain how you limit your carbon emissions
30. Complain about a design choice you disagree with (but make it interesting)
31. Explain what your workspace looks like, and why it looks like that
32. Talk about a recent purchase (and make it philosophical if you want)
33. Decide where in the world you’d like to live
34. Talk about something you wish existed
35. Talk about an event you attended
36. Talk about your relationship to reading − do you like to read? Do you have time to read? What do you enjoy reading? Do audiobooks and graphic novels count as reading to you? What about online essays and news articles? Do you prefer reading on paper or on a screen? Do you track your reading?
37. Take a photo of a beautiful landscape and explain its story
38. Write about a lesson you learned in school that has stayed with you. (That one comes from James!)
39. Think, about where you enjoy writing the most. (Background noise? People all around? A very quiet place? While traveling? On your phone?)
40. Write a letter to yourself 10 years ago. What would you have liked younger you to know? (That one comes from James!)
41. Write about a time when a friend made you laugh uncontrollably at a silly thing. (That one comes from James!)
42. Describe what you see around you right now. It doesn’t have to be special.
43. Write about someone who probably has no idea that they had an impact on your life
44. Write about a dream you had − or a recurring dream. (This one is from Ana!)
45. Write about what would you do if you weren’t in your current career path/job (This one is from Ana!)

Local

46. Explore the urban planning decisions of your neighbourhood
47. List the places you’ve lived in or visited
48. List the places you’d like to live in or visit
49. Share tourist tips for a place you love to visit
50. Write about a local street’s history
51. Tell us what makes your region different from the rest of the world (make « region » as specific as you want)
52. Share a cute or funny graffiti
53. Share the .gpx file of a walk or bike ride you enjoy.

Resources

54. Makes notes on a complex article or book for people who don’t have time to read and understand it in full
55. Document tips and explain why they’re useful
56. Share your method for solving an issue you have (whether it’s common or not, you’re probably not the only person in the world who has it)
57. Share how you organize your to-do tasks
58. Share how people in your region deal with very hot or very cold weather
59. Share an useful website that not many people know about
60. Talk about the apps and tools you use
61. Write about your expertise for people to learn from you
62. Introduce a nonprofit that advances a cause you care about

Interacting with the rest of the Internet

63. Muse out loud about something you haven’t made your mind up about and learn from replies
64. A list of personal websites with nice homepages
65. Reply to someone else’s post with your own thoughts
66. Thank someone who helped you with something
67. Share a blog post by your friend who’s finally getting into blogging
68. Make a blogroll and explain why these specific people are in it
69. Share what you like to see on websites, be it content or design
70. Link to your favourite Wikipedia page (the one with the highest quality)
71. Link to your favourite Wikipedia page (the most absurd one)
72. A roundup of interesting links from elsewhere on the Internet

Culture

73. A list of games you like (if that’s too vague, make it more specific, like ad-free mobile games)
74. Write about a book you recently read
75. Write about a movie you recently watched
76. Write about a TV show you recently watched
77. Write about a podcast you like and share one episode that’s particularly good
78. Write about music you keep listening to these days
79. Write about what your ideal movie would be
80. Tell us how you follow (personal and media) news
81. Ask for reading / watching / other recommendations
82. Get excited about an upcoming event
83. Write about a recent trip
84. Write about the films you think you should re-watch at different stages of your life. (This one is from Ana!)
85. Make a playlist or mixtape and share it

Words

86. Share quotes from the book you’ll never write − sentences that come to you and sound good
87. Say what one word means to you (an example: « community »)
88. Write flash fiction
89. Share the definition of new words or expressions that you learn
90. Make up a word and define it

For non-native English speakers

91. Take a blog post you made in English and translate it to your native language (or the other way round)
92. Translate a good post (preferably under a Creative Commons license that allows you to do so) from English to your native language to make it accessible to more people

Very meta musings

93. Say what you think about blog comment sections
94. Talk about how you got into personal websites
95. Talk about what the personal web means to you
96. Tell us about the changes you make to your website
97. Make a list of things to do with your website
98. Explain why your About Me page looks like this and why you chose to include the information that’s in there
99. Take part in a post carnival (I like the indieweb carnival!)
100. Say you don’t know what to write about
101. Make a list of 100 (or 50, or 1, or 1000) things to post on your personal blog, of course 🙂

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