Blogger is a free blogging platform by Google. Having a Google account, you can create almost 100 blogs at Blogger for free. Each of these is an individual website having a unique subdomain. By writing on the blogs, you are also able to earn money showing ads in your content by Adsense. You can read here more to know the beginner's guide to earning money by writing online. However, this writing is going to know you how can you use the Blogger platform as your notebook or for academic studies.
The most important of an online notebook is that you can link your words to details writings in your article by both internally and externally. This will definitely make your learning easy and comfortable. It also helps you to learn broadly and get a favourable concept from the core level through the entire web. You can add necessary video at your website related to your lessons. Once you created a post successfully, it will be preserved and accessible to anywhere, any device, overall it will save you time. Again, Blogger new interface is mobile friendly and easy to use all the features in mobile comparing other CMS. You will be happy to know that I am writing the whole post including image uploading after compressing on my mobile device.
After creating a blogger account, convey a good name of your blog site. As it's your personal notebook or academic note, you can give a name with a meaningful word related to your working like mynotebook2020. Overall, use a name for your blog that helps you to both identify and inspire at your work.
Blogger has enriched with highly customisable interface. Customize your site as you wish. You can use a default theme. Blogger has a theme to note your writings named Notable that is the best to highlight your writings hiding sidebars under the menu bar.
Or you can use any custom theme or templates to note your posts. Putting a calendar as an archive widget will definitely help you to focus your writings. You can do Google search to out the codes of a calendar archive. You can use the featured post option as an announcement. Use labels on different topics of your notes. Use a proper number of images in your blog post as you need because you can host at least 1Gb of images in Blogger. Or you can simply copy images and paste them into your posts. This will not be hosted in blogger but the main hosting.
As your blog site is personal and you don't want to get into someone here without your permission, you have to make it private. By default, Google bot can crawl your posts and pages and index those in it's SERP.
In order to stop accessing by anonymous, you have to toggle off the visible to search engine option in Blogger settings bar.
Then change your blog readers option from the public to custom readers in the permission section. By default, it is like this,
After changing its look like this,
As it's a personal website, you don't need to give credit to the owner. Make blog clean and don't host anything that violates blogger basic terms and conditions.
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