{"id":573892462,"date":"2020-08-18T18:47:30","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T22:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/?p=573892462"},"modified":"2020-09-01T19:03:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T23:03:09","slug":"but-dont-analyze-the-marker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/blog\/2020\/08\/18\/but-dont-analyze-the-marker\/","title":{"rendered":"But don&#8217;t analyze the marker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many systems of keeping your life organized, you have to create strata so it all makes sense. And I have many systems. Calendars chart meetings and long term reminders. Index cards chart a day full of chores and meetings. My inboxes are tasks demanded by others. Word documents create a running list of fluid, ever-changing instructions to myself, half-baked ideas and strips of things I&#8217;ve copied and pasted. Notebooks hold life&#8217;s real mysteries: things that were important in the moment and adjudged to be of lasting significance, or at least worth treating like a mysterious message when I run across it again at some future point when the past is more than foggy. <\/p>\n<p>But for everyday, in-the-moment reminders, the trust sticky note can&#8217;t be beat. You can get an hour or two&#8217;s worth of tasks on one with ease. They stick to a desk or, sometimes, a wall, and when you&#8217;re doing the peel-off process gives just enough resistance to mark the achievement. (And they fold up nicely into paper footballs, but that&#8217;s a different sort of benefit.)<\/p>\n<p>Devoid of context, they are simultaneously enlightening and and mystifying.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/photo\/aug20\/aug26.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Every day, sticky note. Every day. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among the many systems of keeping your life organized, you have to create strata so it all makes sense. And I have many systems. Calendars chart meetings and long term reminders. Index cards chart a day full of chores and meetings. My inboxes are tasks demanded by others. Word documents create a running list of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-573892462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","category-tuesday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573892462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":573892463,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573892462\/revisions\/573892463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573892462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573892462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kennysmith.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573892462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}