Habitual Value

[gothwalk]

Originally published at Now Is A Long Time Too. You can comment here or there.

There's a definite value in habits of writing and labelling. Often, when I think of something in work that I want to work on at home, I'll send myself a mail with “Topic: Something” in the subject line, where “Topic” is something like “Starbound”, “D&D”, “Plan”, or whatever. I've set up filters in gmail so that this stuff gets caught and labelled so I can find it easily later on. I just sent myself one such, and went to set up the filter - only to discover that that filter already exists, even though I have no memory of ever setting it up. This pleases me.