It's kind of nice going back through and rereading entries from months (and now over a year) ago. There are some patterns that noticeably emerge, but there are also some clear changes in our world and myself over time. Even noting how my focus varies from season to season makes the trip worth the time ... if I ever get around to doing it.
It's also nice having the documents so I can use the search tool to quickly (well, relatively quickly) find entries that I have written about in the past. Each year that I have runs over two hundred pages of single-spaced work, so it's nice to have a tool like that to quickly scan through them. I have complete years running back through 2015 and spotty entries all the way to 2011, when I first created my website.
I almost started in on them today, but I realized that I was using that as a distraction from working on my doctoral proposal (which I resubmitted for review tonight). Maybe I'll archive another month or two tomorrow.