Presently, my Documents folder (ex-Downloads, -Music, -Templates) contains 3,837 files across 171 sub-folders; its size is 4,596,169,837 bytes. It's my life in ones and zeroes: current projects, life administration, resources, and—if I squint my eyes and tilt my head a bit—a vaguely defined archive holding photos, journal entries, and documents which record the sentimental moments of my life. Current projects are simply what I'm actively working on; as a scholar, this means work for my next manuscript or conference proposal or that work-in-progress novel. Life administration contains inventories, like the list of tv shows or music I mean to get to. It's active material, but meant to give some semblance of structure in my life. Resources are reference material, useful for what I'm actively working on. (I have learned to avoid collecting resources "just in case" and to value a strong reference over several.) It's the archive that frustrates and exhausts me. A lot of memories are…
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