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[thedarlingone]

I think I may have figured out why my sporadic projects to write down and collect the poems I have memorized (before the enshittification makes it even more impossible to google them -- it's already pretty bad) always fail out. I write them down as I think of them or find them, but I can never get an indexing method going that I like, so I start forgetting what I've already written out.

So I am trying again. This time I'm getting a three-ring binder and some notebook paper; I usually try in bound composition books because, you know, a bound book feels like a better choice for something I'm trying to plan to keep, but I am going to see if it will work better for my brain if I write each poem on a separate set of sheets of paper so I can put them in some sort of alphabetical order. (I would say on a separate sheet, but we're talking Paul Revere's Ride and the collected poems of JRR Tolkien, these are not necessarily one-page poems.)

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[ysabetwordsmith]

>> my sporadic projects to write down and collect the poems I have memorized <<

That's a good idea.

>> (before the enshittification makes it even more impossible to google them -- it's already pretty bad)<<

Yeah, I don't think the people destroying the search engines have realized that the internet is absolutely useless without them. It's too big to search manually, and pointless if you can't find things in the massive haystack. :/

>>I am going to see if it will work better for my brain if I write each poem on a separate set of sheets of paper so I can put them in some sort of alphabetical order.<<

That should work. I've found it much easier to put things in a looseleaf binder so they can be reorganized as needed.

>>but we're talking Paul Revere's Ride and the collected poems of JRR Tolkien, these are not necessarily one-page poems.)<<

You have great taste. :D

[thisbluespirit]

Good luck! Loose sheets and a binder sounds like a good solution.