A humorous personal essay about the writer's struggle to organize their digital notes. Filled with relatable anecdotes about the pitfalls of a single, sprawling note and the comedic juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated information.
I’ve stopped setting myself new year resolutions – it seems a bad precedent to set yourself up for so much flagrant disappointment. We all know I’m not going to ‘get into hiking’ or ‘understand superannuation’ – but maybe I can destroy my swollen and lumbering digital memo. My most used and most terrifying app on my phone is the bewildering swamp wilderness of the Notes app. For those unaware, the app has a simple function – it’s a place to jot down notes.
It’s like a notebook but on your phone. A simple way to organise your life across your various devices. Genius! And yet nothing causes me more existential dread than my Notes app because, for years now, instead of creating an ordered system of lists and separate topic-defined notes, I have shoved every single thought and message and draft and recipe and quote and password into one lumbering, behemoth note. A method of organisation turned into a scary hoarder’s lair, full of trash and secrets (my wifi password is in there, as well as several polite breakup texts). It’s hundreds and hundreds of pages long, so hard to find anything important that it’s almost unusable, and is often hilarious in its contrasts. One memorable moment was copying a carefully worded answer to a job application from my giant note and accidentally pasting in the ingredient list for a Sri Lankan curry. Why am I perfect for this role? Cumin and garam masala, of course. I also regularly use it for work – a pithy celebrity quote I’ve taken from an article, sitting next to a middle-of-the-night concept for a novel about “huge sassy birds” and my tax file number. Almost tanking my job prospects via curry has been a wake-up call, so my resolution for 2025 is to finally destroy my giant note and create some order out of the chaos
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