You need somewhere to put all the things you want to do someday. A spot for links and recommendations and pictures and notes and all the other cruft that accumulates with inspiration. Somewhere to remind yourself that you cared about it.
Not so you can actually find and act on them, but so you can put the ideas down while you tell to yourself that you, really, actually, for real this time, will do a lifetimes of activities in the next month. It's not going to happen. Dump it in purgatory and let your workspace reset for the things you actually end up doing.
It should be unorganized. You won't need to find much in it, a basic search will do fine. It's a bonus that the few times you do come back you have an archive to reference, not the primary objective. If you want to organize, organize the things you're doing right now.
Never beat yourself up for letting things rot there. That's the point, even while you must tell yourself that you won't let it next time so you keep being motivated to put things there.
Some things, most things, are going to be abandoned. It's simply too much faster to think of things than do them. So let it die there, not your head, where it's rubbing up against all the things which do matter right now.
- Rew
Nightly Notes
The graveyard of things I thought would make a good post is getting surprisingly long. I'll hit the thousands in a few months at this pace.
Every day I tell myself that if I can't think of anything I can go dig something out, but it's surprisingly rare. Something will hit me before the end of the day, and there's nothing as good as the spark of a new idea in the moment.
It's more concerning that graveyard of side projects is still larger. I could start another three blogs right now if I had the time.
I add the hyperlinks back to old posts as a reminder to myself that I've hitting the same ideas and might want to look back on it than for a future reader. The connection doesn't always flow right from an external view.
I tell myself every day when I post that I'll come back to expand and reexplain the ideas another day.
I don't.
This is one of my idea purgatories, although a relatively selective one. I'm already forgetting half the things I've written, even though this is specifically a blog about things I'm already doing or changing.
Sometimes I consider making a index of all the posts by topic, though I suspect it's a fools errand. Another way of convincing myself I'll come back.
I don't know if it's a bad thing.
I need a way to let go.
- Rew