Even more notes: Google Docs love
The New York Times has a feature compiled by Sam Sifton of staffer’s Google Docs and it’s so my thing.
My fave from the compilation is “Almost Everything I Looked Up in a Week,” by Caity Weaver that has the bonus of being heavily annotated. Annotations for the win.
I’m a keeper of lists that are mostly nonsensical to anyone but me and a daily user of many Google Docs, so this is right up my alley. If you’ve worked with me I’ve likely shared/forced you to look at a Google Doc.
I recently began one (just for me) of words I look up on Merriam Webster for meaning and or usage. I’ll share that. I like how lists like this become a sort of diary in themselves. I do this with music too. Each month I begin a new playlist, titled with the month, year, and the first song added to the playlist. For this month it’s 2020.08 Better. I’ve been doing this for years and it is always a pleasure to go back, click on a list, get a jist of what my mood was during that time.
A few years back I made a booklet of a handwritten list I had on a single piece of rather tattered and splotched plain paper that I kept near my computer. I called it FIFTY important words & phrases and presented the list in the exact order in which I had written them over a years time.
A couple of weeks ago I was sent a picture of Ed Ruscha holding my booklet and well, maybe I cried. (And also laughed.)
Ed Ruscha holds and owns my booklet and I am dead.