Notes to Self

2iv26

I'm not sure when the category 'Notes to Self' announced itself as a mode of textual accumulation, but there are file folders with that title that stretch back to at least the 1980s (fruits of desk cleanup iterations), and I've been writing down thoughts on pieces of paper and in various shirt-pocket notebooks for years. Generally I recognize myself in the fragments of text, and there are recurrent themes. I'm not sure just what the utility might be of trying to Collect and Curate such ephemera and maundering... just have to try to sort out the messages contained in the various form factors, and attempt to assess the possible uses.

Yesterday I started to read through the entries in the last 4 months of yellow pads (9 of them), to rationalize and expand a /lifebox link. The effort wants to be more systematic. more reflective, maybe even more analytical... and I'm thinking about how to orchestrate that endeavor.