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Chronological archives

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It's time to shift out of the PARA file structure and to one that’s just chronological. Information hierarchies are bound to mutate and shift throughout your life. Looking back to files from 10-20 years ago, the only navigation that makes sense to me is per year, so I might as well do that now.

Perhaps “Vault” is for timeless, important information. “Chronicle” contains yearly archive folders where basically everything goes. “Resources” are for files organized by medium (ie: torrented movies from 2011—it’s neither important, nor does the download year matter). So not PARA, but VCR. I guess that’s catchy. Bonus points if I store this all on a hard drive that looks like a VCR tape with a handwritten name label.