For years, personal blogs have imitated industrial systems of categories and tags, as if neat taxonomies would guarantee order. But in practice, humans neither recall nor retrieve information this way. No one asks a search engine for “#cookies” to find a childhood recipe, nor does anyone filter with “#chocolate-chip-cookies” and expect meaningful results. Our minds seek substance through context and memory, not hashtags or SQL logic.
The true test of any organizational scheme is legacy. Will someone navigating this archive in a decade find what matters, or only a tangle of invented labels? Tags and sprawling taxonomies offer the illusion of order but collapse into noise and duplication.
This project moves toward disciplined restraint: each post is assigned to one of eight broad categories, and tags are abandoned entirely. The goal is not convenience, but stewardship—a commitment to clarity that endures beyond the habits of the moment.
Restructuring the archive—23 categories, 447 tags, and over 2,300 posts—will be a gradual task. There is no shortcut. As of today, every new post follows the new discipline. Over time, the system will reflect a bias for order and accountability, not novelty or abundance.
About
- Assigned Category
- Stewardship
- Justification
- The post documents and implements a systematic approach to organizing the archive, prioritizing preservation and clarity for future readers as an act of ongoing responsibility.