I have electronic journals that always end up with huge gaps in them, chronologically. But I also have directories where I keep poems, songs, essays, fiction, and other bits and pieces. So if I ever wanted to reconstruct my life I could do it. I date my file entries out of old habit (from the days of paper dispatches and typewritten letters). (Remember handwritten memos?) (Carbon copies?) Wow....

And I back up my hard disk almost as regularly as I should!

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