If all of my things were on paper, I’m sure I’d have a better system.

I am generally organized about a lot of things (though not all). I know where most of my physical possessions are. I don’t tend to lose my keys or not know where to look for a book or craft tool or something. No matter how messy the house is.

But digital things? They’re so easy for me to misplace. Mostly because there are so many different places they could be.

Our physical world is made up of a lot of different places, but most of our possessions are in our houses somewhere. And receptacles can only get so small before they’re too small to be useful for holding an object.

Not so in the digital world, where nested folders can hide all sorts of things. Or online cloud services make things out of sight, out of mind. Or apps on our phone are hidden among the dozens that we forget we even downloaded.

I have a habit of coming up with a digital organizational system for something and then forget to use it. Or quickly forget where I put the information, what app or program I used or what folder I stored the file in or where I put a bookmark. So I start it all over again in a new place.

So, I’ve organized, over and over again, lists of movies and TV shows to watch, books I want to read, and resources for topics I am researching or writing about. I have a big mess of random stuff and can’t find anything a lot of the time. At least in the physical world, there is a finite space to search for hunting things down. Not so in the digital world. You can’t even put search terms in any one place that will search all of your digital spaces (which, honestly, is probably good).

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