A Fool Must Act Foolishly and Make it Easy to Look Back

Hello, I am incompetent.

Although I'm always thinking about various things, what I think about usually gets forgotten quickly, so I strongly feel that I must save it somehow.
Including such things, I sometimes find myself helped by articles I've written myself, so I feel anew that keeping records is important.

During my high school days, I used to go out and keep a diary for a while, and I also took photos and pasted them as records. Looking at them now, they are good memories, but it's quite difficult to look back at them again.
Especially since I'm a fool, for a socially inept person like me who often loses things, perhaps writing things down on physical objects is something I shouldn't do in the first place.

If I save it as a file on my PC, at least the date it was saved will be recorded, but I usually lose the file itself.
If I have built a blog site, I feel that by building and maintaining that blog site, I'm relatively less likely to lose things, and it might suit my personality. And since it's WordPress, I can use its built-in search function from the start, which is convenient and helpful.

The Feeling of Being Watched?

Since I am a socially inept person more than people imagine, by publishing it on the WWW, I have at least some awareness that I need to do things properly.

Just as I learned typing in old FPS games, back then, my teammates' lives were on the line in the game, but I didn't have a microphone, so I had no choice but to force myself to type hard. However, I recently lost a typing contest to a friend.
It was quite a shock.

Because of such things, if I'm in a state where people are watching, I feel like I have to continue something, and I can see how far I've gotten with tasks I've abandoned midway, so I feel that it was good to continue it roughly.

Since I'm still bad at writing, my Japanese is often a mess, so I think I need to properly structure the content, but that concept usually falls apart in my head by doing something like "adding more broth." Currently, I am practicing the work of organizing things, including such matters.

How to Interact with Digital Depending on the Situation

For example, when I have a coherent idea I want to write about that "seems like it will be quite long," I can write a blog post. However, for microblogging SNS, looking back at them later involves two patterns currently:
- Twitter/X: Searching from my home feed, or an account name like @aaaa and the phrase I want to search for.
- Mastodon: Saving post data and searching with grep etc.
These are the two patterns currently.
Twitter/X is easier to use with its GUI, but Mastodon is also good in the sense that it can output files and perform powerful dumps.
For example, even if I only post a URL as a memo, I can exclude the source Mastodon URL with grep -v and output all the URLs I was looking at. (Strictly speaking, since post data is output as a single line, I would need to insert a newline character with sed for each post first.)

If I want to save YouTube videos all at once, or if I want to save only news articles, I can grep them, and there's a reason why I usually display the title of the URL destination in my case.
Even if the URL destination is gone, if I just have that URL's title, there's a possibility it's been reposted on other sites, so I'm taking out insurance to be able to retrieve the information.

Even if it's not during travel time or anything, if I can just quickly post, if I can post even just a URL, I can compile the URLs later.

Huh? You can save post data on Twitter/X too? I don't know about others, but in my case, when I posted on Twitter/X from my smartphone browser's share function and then immediately returned to the browser, the post often failed to complete in the background and was lost (it would post if I opened the app again while it was posting), so I just don't use it.

Time Flies By, But Memories Should Remain

We can never live in memories or the past. And everyone, myself and those around me, changes.
If we can think of it as having been fun in a good way, then in one way or another, that's fine, isn't it?

Since we can only live in the present, my motto is to always live happily, even while saying 'this and that,' so that we can overwrite past memories with new fun memories.