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Really like the "Draft in Progress" bar to delimit the polished and unpolished sections.

Indeed. Reducing the opacity but leaving the content (at least outside of reader mode, haven't tried with reader mode) makes is very clear.

the sheer polish of the design of the top half makes me think it is more complete than it is though. Maggie puts a "budding" status right at the top, but i'm sure 99% of readers completely missed that and have no idea what it means in her taxonomy.

i have my drafts public too but i separate them for this reason.

I actually found the contrast between the lower part of the article labelled 'draft' and the upper finished part instructive. I could sort of imagine how the unfinished paragraphs might be completed finally.

PS: 1977 Tools for Thought was by C.H. Waddington, a UK biologist with an interest in complex systems. Club of Rome era about systems thinking and all.

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