For example, as I'm currently writing about The Game that I use in my AP history classes, I wanted to see what else I might have written about them. I came up with no fewer than four separate attempts that I have made to describe The Game and multiple spreadsheets that I used to keep track of The Game when I used it back at Lincoln High School. I still didn't find the write up that I did about The Game for one of my blog posts--which was the document that I hoped to find.
This, of course, reminded me that I still haven't organized any of my blog posts since May of 2019. This has been an ongoing to-do item on my annual resolutions for a couple of years now. Getting them transferred into documents would go a long way in making it easier to search for past posts. Still, they aren't nearly as much of a mess as my documents.
I try to be organized in my document folders and have been fairly successful since the creation of Google Drive as I no longer have to worry about which physical computer or flashdrive is holding which document folder. Instead, I just need to remember which Google account I used when making a document. Unfortunately, finding anything from before Google Drive existed is quite a bit of a challenge. I tried to always upload my documents to any new home computer that I purchased, but I rarely took the time to organize them in any meaningful way. Thus, I have document folders imbedded within document folders that are imbedded within document folders.
Like my office itself, I keep thinking that I should spend some time rearranging and reorganizing my files so that they could be more useful. I don't know if this is a project that I will ever get around to doing. Like my physical files, they will likely only get more cluttered the next time that I'm forced to move to another computer.