A New Way to Browse and an Awkward (Belated) Thanks for Reading!
Just updated the template on this site to include day pages. This means that, similar to the daily email update, you can now access all the posts from today on one page at:
notes.caseyagollan.com/day/2010/01/03
or all the posts from one year ago today at:
notes.caseyagollan.com/day/2009/01/03
One of the reasons I love Tumblr is their thoroughly logical URL structures that let me search (/search/[anything]), explore tags (/tagged/[anything]), and navigate within the comfort of my address bar. To see links from two days ago, simply edit the url, no navigation or index pages required!
And don’t forget (as I often do) that you can almost-too-easily browse up and down each page on the site using the J and K keys on your keyboard. When you hit the bottom it’ll automatically jump to the next page. It’s magic!
Since I always feel a little bit self-conscious about doing these meta-posts to readers (and maybe to make up for my unusually reserved one year bloggiversary post) I wrote a little ramble along the lines of the “Thanks for reading!” entries that have been flooding my feed reader for the past week: (I tried to resist, I swear!)
I started Notes + Links in late 2008 when I realized that Tumblr presented a nearly perfect system for collecting all the fragments of things that I like or double-take at on-and-sometimes-off-line.
A little over a year later I’m still adding to it almost daily, and still frequently searching my own site for, say, something great I read about architecture a few months ago that I want to share. As Joanne McNeil of Tomorrow Museum notes in her post How to Capture an Idea: “Search is really the key reason I feel digital storage is the best place to save other people’s ideas I want to build on. However well I label paper folders, I still can’t plug in “beijing” and “shoe design” or whatever and come up with several results in a snap.” Having this searchable database of my external influences has been really interesting and it remains the real reason why I keep feverishly posting Notes + Links with near-curatorial-abandon.
Along the way I’ve found a few readers, commenters, and likers on Facebook, by email, on Tumblr, and by RSS. For whatever reason*, a bunch of people have found this stream of nonsense cohesive enough to follow. So I know this alters the fact that I’m not entirely just doing it for me, and potentially makes it less interesting as a database, but I still get a little jumpy every time I see that we both liked the same article or image, or wanted to share it, or have something interesting to say about it. In any case, I’m not exactly a hermit and love to share these things so thanks again for reading and uhhh…enjoy the new features!
*Maybe it’s the interconnectedness of my interests? Or the tiny bits of contextualizing comments? Or maybe all I can ever see in anything creativity, art, and design! Or maybe I actually have a narrow mind? Or maybe people are just trying to increase their own despicable _Tumblarity_? Or maybe, unlike so much over-edited, targeted, labored-over Content (with a capital C), it doesn’t always have to be cohesive to be fun. Whatever it is, hooray!
