I just installed the “On This Day” feature in the Archives and decided to click on one of the results as a test and I was amused by what I wrote on this same day two years ago:
Am I doing something useful or am I avoiding something that is intellectually more difficult?
I am not an archivist.
But I want to curate my notes and articles.I am not making notes for legal documents.
Just for me.For 99.99% of my notes, lists, notebooks, drafts, files… done is better than perfect.
If I can reliably find my notes and figure out later on what I meant when I wrote it, that’s all I need.
Times have changed, because now, for me, the sole purpose of this website is to be a repository for my thoughts and I am in fact, a curator. An archivist.