diff --git a/content/post/2017/07/journaling-in-practice.md b/content/post/2017/07/journaling-in-practice.md index c117077b..30ee50ad 100644 --- a/content/post/2017/07/journaling-in-practice.md +++ b/content/post/2017/07/journaling-in-practice.md @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ categories: - learning tags: - journaling - - digitizing + - archiving - fountain pens published: true --- diff --git a/content/post/2020/10/a-personal-journey-through-the-history-of-webdesign.md b/content/post/2020/10/a-personal-journey-through-the-history-of-webdesign.md index 9cd621ec..6d7bdd61 100644 --- a/content/post/2020/10/a-personal-journey-through-the-history-of-webdesign.md +++ b/content/post/2020/10/a-personal-journey-through-the-history-of-webdesign.md @@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ tags: - lists - blogging - screenshots + - archiving date: 2020-10-04 --- diff --git a/content/post/2021/01/digitizing-journals-using-devonthink.md b/content/post/2021/01/digitizing-journals-using-devonthink.md index dc138341..33e0a4ed 100644 --- a/content/post/2021/01/digitizing-journals-using-devonthink.md +++ b/content/post/2021/01/digitizing-journals-using-devonthink.md @@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ categories: - learning tags: - journaling - - DEVONthink - - digitizing + - archiving - privacy --- diff --git a/content/post/2021/11/from-analog-notebook-to-digital-vault.md b/content/post/2021/11/from-analog-notebook-to-digital-vault.md index 8b0c7f4f..abe728ad 100644 --- a/content/post/2021/11/from-analog-notebook-to-digital-vault.md +++ b/content/post/2021/11/from-analog-notebook-to-digital-vault.md @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ date: 2021-11-22T08:36:00+01:00 tags: - obsidian - journaling - - digitizing + - archiving --- The third Dutch Obsidian meetup took place last Saturday. It was a lot of fun to see how others work in and manage their Obsidian Vault. I still need to process [Roy Scholten's Bildung blog](https://bildung.royscholten.nl/) where he writes about information visualization, design, and note-taking, his English translation of Johannes Schmidt's [Zettelkasten presentation](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1re3lYaALScZ49189XIGqUVjQlMPe9uOfLEyz8y7mJuE/edit#heading=h.ygj23kjvy5z), and [Harold Jarche's Personal Knowledge Management](https://jarche.com/pkm/) system---always great to get to know new things! diff --git a/content/post/2022/03/expiry-dates-on-journals.md b/content/post/2022/03/expiry-dates-on-journals.md index 7c4e04fd..50a12daf 100644 --- a/content/post/2022/03/expiry-dates-on-journals.md +++ b/content/post/2022/03/expiry-dates-on-journals.md @@ -19,9 +19,11 @@ What is the purpose of a journal? To answer that, first, let's try to answer thi Unless it stops being your own. Van Gogh's sometimes very private letters to his brother were never meant for our prying eyes. The family even obfuscated quite a few of them to try and "clean them up" for the general public. Others, like Cicero, wrote letters to friends that were clearly also intended to be read by others, meant as wise lessons. -The decision to destroy your own journals is not a light one, as [Chris Hegstad](https://christihegstad.com/blog/burned-90-journals-still-journal-daily/) also wrote (and the [reactions of this Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Journaling/comments/9epj6e/does_anyone_here_destroy_their_journals/) seem to prove). As to why burn them, she wrote: +The decision to destroy your own journals is not a light one, as [Christi Hegstad](https://christihegstad.com/blog/burned-90-journals-still-journal-daily/) also wrote (and the [reactions of this Reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/Journaling/comments/9epj6e/does_anyone_here_destroy_their_journals/) seem to prove). As to why burn them, she wrote: -> My response to why would I burn them, however, was robust. To feel lighter, to free up the past, to relieve others from the onerous task of deciding what to do with them when I die, to create space – figuratively and literally – for the fresh and new, and about a dozen more reasons. +> My response to why would I burn them, however, was robust. To feel lighter, to free up the past, to relieve others from the onerous task of deciding what to do with them when I die[^whenidie], to create space – figuratively and literally – for the fresh and new, and about a dozen more reasons. + +[^whenidie]: There's also digital data to take into consideration. See [What Happens To My Digital Identity When I Die?](/post/2022/09/what-happens-to-my-digital-identity-when-i-die/). > But mostly, for peace of mind. diff --git a/content/post/2022/09/what-happens-to-my-digital-identity-when-i-die.md b/content/post/2022/09/what-happens-to-my-digital-identity-when-i-die.md index c6f34921..250b05a6 100644 --- a/content/post/2022/09/what-happens-to-my-digital-identity-when-i-die.md +++ b/content/post/2022/09/what-happens-to-my-digital-identity-when-i-die.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ title: "What Happens To My Digital Identity When I Die?" date: 2022-09-18T09:10:00+02:00 categories: - braindump +tags: + - archiving --- Wesley and Winnie Lim think about [how websites die](https://notebook.wesleyac.com/how-websites-die/) and [website graveyards](https://winnielim.org/journal/on-writing-to-exist-and-website-graveyards/). What becomes of them after we're gone? The same day I encountered those articles, Kristien stumbled upon a "_what happens to my digital identity when you die?_" article in a digital newspaper. It occurred to me that I should give this the attention it deserves, even though having to deal with it is kind of morbid. diff --git a/content/post/2022/10/should-we-build-our-own-wayback-machines.md b/content/post/2022/10/should-we-build-our-own-wayback-machines.md index 5c21eede..69a0d179 100644 --- a/content/post/2022/10/should-we-build-our-own-wayback-machines.md +++ b/content/post/2022/10/should-we-build-our-own-wayback-machines.md @@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ title: Should We Build Our Own Wayback Machines? date: 2022-10-27T13:04:00+02:00 categories: - webdesign +tags: + - archiving --- Preserving web content never really left my mind ever since taking screenshots of old sites and putting them in [my personal museum](/post/2020/10/a-personal-journey-through-the-history-of-webdesign/). The Internet Archive's [Wayback Machine](https://web.archive.org/) is a wonderful tool that currently stores 748 billion webpage snapshots over time, including dozens of my own webdesign attempts, dating back to 2001. But that data is not in our hands. diff --git a/content/post/2023/03/creating-journals-that-last.md b/content/post/2023/03/creating-journals-that-last.md index 34940059..3780886f 100644 --- a/content/post/2023/03/creating-journals-that-last.md +++ b/content/post/2023/03/creating-journals-that-last.md @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ categories: - learning tags: - journaling + - archiving --- In case you haven't noticed lately, the archivist within me has been flaring up again. The subject of a more robust analog journal is something I've been pondering since I encountered Jeff Huang's [Designing pages to last](/post/2022/10/should-we-build-our-own-wayback-machines/) mantra---although he meant _web_-pages, not physical things on paper such as a notebook or journal. diff --git a/content/post/2023/03/verify-your-backup-strategy.md b/content/post/2023/03/verify-your-backup-strategy.md index 3d33b2d1..6ba227d9 100644 --- a/content/post/2023/03/verify-your-backup-strategy.md +++ b/content/post/2023/03/verify-your-backup-strategy.md @@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ categories: tags: - backup - NAS + - archiving --- In [What Happens To My Digital Identity When I Die?](/post/2022/09/what-happens-to-my-digital-identity-when-i-die/), I thought about my data and what should become of it when I'm no longer here. I discovered then that not even my wife has access to many of my accounts and data, which was solved by drafting and printing out a document that's kept safe. That document also describes the current backup system and where to find what.