Bookmark Overload
I am an information hoarder, squirreling away links with a silent promise that I will absolutely, definitely return to this piece of content in the future. I will need it. I will implement the advice, visit the location, and make the recipe.
I have bookmarks on every social media site in addition to the bookmarks I leave behind on every browser, the “bookmarks” I email myself, and the “bookmarks” I download as a PDF and put in a folder to read later. They’re not really bookmarks, but they’re kind of like bookmarks. Okay, they’re technically bookmarks in non-bookmark form.
The bookmark is a kind of fantasy: Not just in the sense that we can convince ourselves, while employing it, that we will one day transform an old t-shirt into shorts, but that by using it we’re not merely passive observers of our social feeds, but active participants, explorers, collectors. Gathering resources for a life we’re bound to start living.
Gulp.
If I were going to make myself a resolution this year (which I’m not), I would probably make it to bookmark less and return to bookmarks more. And if, within one month, I cannot actually see a future use for the information, I can unbookmark it.
Luckily, I don’t make resolutions.
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I am applauding the “I don’t make resolutions” stance! 😉👏😉
My new thing to do when I bookmark a recipe is to put a reminder in my calendar to add it to my meal plan and grocery list. I’ve done it once and then shopped on a different day so it didn’t work but I think it has potential. Or it’s just a second version of bookmarking and I’m compounding the problem.