{"id":14924,"date":"2019-06-25T08:47:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T12:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2019\/06\/25\/yearly-projects-offline-reading\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:51:00","slug":"yearly-projects-offline-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2019\/06\/25\/yearly-projects-offline-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Yearly Projects & Offline Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had a team meeting at work recently (I joined by videoconference), and on one of the worksheets we used to review our annual goals, I doodled a little picture for each of my projects.<\/p>\n

The little icons spoke to me far more than a title or description, so I decided to revise my little project pad. I figure the visual will make me much more likely to review these and remember the original intention of the project.<\/p>\n

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I’ve also been using a program and app called Keep Everything<\/a> to save articles for reading later (versus darting from thing to thing in the moment like a hummingbird). It saves them as plain-text Markdown<\/a> files (so they’re future-proof and not locked into any particular system) and backs them up to Dropbox.<\/p>\n

I can’t trust myself to read these on the computer, though, and not be lured into looking up this and that, answering e-mails, or browsing pointlessly, so I’ve started taking these saved articles and printing them out as a ‘magazine’ for me to read offline:<\/p>\n

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(Sorry, the card I used for the cover had a *#$@ing price sticker on it that I coloured over in Sharpie, making for that weird reflection.)<\/p>\n

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I’m very close to finishing the first issue of my comic<\/a>, and what I want to work on next is a guide to balancing our digital and analogue lives.<\/p>\n

I’ve hardly solved the problem, but I’ve worked out a few things, and I want to create a fun, interactive book\/cards\/zine\/journal\/pad kit — to take things further than the books and articles that say “Social media makes you sad”, give you a bunch of studies, then don’t really give you much guidance beyond “Just stop using the thing” or “Use an app” (like interacting with the device in yet another<\/em> way is going to help).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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