Writeabout

Side projects live in the margins of available time and attention. What's sitting in the margins of your work right now, waiting for more space?

Most tools are designed for a primary job, but it's often the edge cases that reveal how good they really are. Describe a tool that surprised you by handling something it wasn't really built for.

Browser tabs you never close, folders you never open, apps that sit on page three of your home screen. What lives on the edges of your digital life and what does that say about your habits?

Think about the margins of your day — the ten minutes before the house wakes up, the commute, the time between tasks. What actually happens there, and does it matter?

A person is handed a box of someone else's archived life — letters, photos, receipts, a journal — and told to decide what gets kept for a museum. Write the scene where they find something that makes the decision impossible

Plain text files outlast almost every proprietary format. What principles guide how you store the things that matter to you long-term?

Institutions preserve history on our behalf, but they choose what matters. What do you think gets left out, and does that concern you?

How much of your digital life would make sense to someone who found it in 100 years? Does it truly represent who you are as a person?

Describe your current system for deciding what stays and what goes — whether that's email, files, physical stuff, or something else entirely.

Digital archives are fragile in ways physical ones aren't. What have you lost to a dead platform, a deleted account, or a format no one can open anymore?