I'm going through one of those phases where I feel like I need to pull everything out of boxes and organise stuff. That goes for the virtual boxes online too, of course.
I've got three main domains that I use, each with a different types of hosting, each with a different e-mail provider and very different (unnecessarily) visual styles. Stuff that's just grown up over the last 20+ years of having an online presence.
I'm also troubled by the amount of linkrot in the older parts of my blog - the loss of typepad recently probably made it all a lot worse.
And then I have so many plain text files scattered around from my various experiments in organising, programming and writing online. I wish I could not let it bother me, but it does. It's a bundle of unclosed loops that are a cognitive overhead for me. Most of the time it doesn't have too much of an impact, but now and then, I think "I'd really like to get X organised so that I don't have to think about it".
There are drawers and boxes of physical stuff too, that I know in an ideal world would be in more structured storage so that I could find things more easily. Don't even start me on photos.
Probably not the best thing to be ruminating on after 6pm when I've done enough for today!
Since I relocated my personal domain I've not set up the old blog again. I've also got extracted posts from several platforms I've used that either shut down or I deleted my account. I wonder whether to process those into something I could put online, but it's a big job. The physical stuff is a whole other matter. I try to let some go.
What I really don't need is a box of clowns.
Haha! We all think we don't need a box of clowns and yet these disappeared from the shop window where I saw them pretty quickly (and I don't think the charity shop just dumped them!)
I think that part of the process for organising online stuff is just accepting that it's an ongoing treadmill, a bear to be wrestled with now and then, rather than a problem that will ever be fully solved.
Maybe 'AI' can help us organise our digital archives. Some people will have hundreds of thousands of photos. I actually find Google Photos good at finding things and it also reminds me of things I've done years ago so I get to enjoy those moments again. People have dreamed of some 'digital assistant' that could do the drudge work and maybe that is finally happening. Just need something we can trust.
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