Awareness of the outside world. “A nice science-fictional idea, but there was no real story to support it. I learned very quickly that ideas are easy: it’s the story that’s the hard part.” The Director Should’ve Shot You: Memoirs of the Film Trade by Alan Dean Foster. Ideas are the easy part. I’ve said this for years. Here are some ideas. I release them into the wild. Do with them as you will.
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I use fictitious dates to keep my draft file organized.
A few of the drafts are posts that I am working on. A few of the drafts are things that I am waiting on. Most of the drafts are what a friend calls “evergreen” (waves hi!). These are posts that are timeless, such as Cat Pause posts or Taking A Break posts. I do these ahead of time and save them for days when I run out of time, or inspiration, or the ability to brain. [Cat Pause In A Cart or Taking A Break On A Porch, Or, You’re Welcome, Not Fiction]
Pauses & Breaks can go at any time. Other evergreens are for specific days, such as a Weird Photo Moment for Friday, an essay for Saturday, or an alphabet for Sunday. [Pinhole Photography or Square Flourishes]
To keep the different categories clumped together, I assign dates to drafts. Photo posts are scheduled for some time in the 2060s, art post for the 2040s, and so on. This way, when I sort the drafts by reverse chronological date, they fall into the order I want.
Yes, I enjoy sorting things, why do you ask? Doesn’t everyone create spreadsheets for fun?
Anyway.
These posts are all in draft mode. I don’t press the go button to literally schedule the drafts for those years.
But what if I did?
What if I scheduled a post for 2075? What would happen?
Most likely nothing. By then our information technology will have morphed into who knows what form. The post would go the way of a file on a floppy disk. It would never see the light of day.
What if it did get posted? What if WordPress turned into this company and then into that company and then into some novel form of organization, and each time all of the old files were grandfathered in? I could see it as a selling point. Stay with us and don’t lose your files.
And then in 2075, my post pops up.
It would be as if today’s post office delivered a letter from 1975. A voice from the past. Would it sink without a ripple? Would it be the pebble that sets off a chain reaction of events? Would it be read by a collateral descendant who suddenly was able to see me as a person instead of random name on an offshoot of a genealogy chart? Or medical science has hit big in geriatrics and I’m still alive to read it?
What other possibilities do you see?
Archives [State of the Blog]
Onwards!
Katherine
Virtual Brush Box 
I don’t know about EVERYONE, but I enjoy making spreadsheets for fun and enjoyed this insight into your organizational thoughts.
~Dom
Not only organized but the cause of organization in others.