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Post by Pukka-J on Jan 30, 2018 9:00:43 GMT
I tried several forms of logging, several times too...I gave up 😊
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Post by schnacks on Feb 1, 2018 15:28:54 GMT
Back when I moved from the US to the UK, when dinosaurs roamed the earth and well before t’internet or mobile phones, I wrote a lot of letters to friends and family back home. I photocopied them so that I would remember what I had said to everyone. I still have these, and they are like a journal of that time. It’s one of the things that inspired me to start writing letters again last year.
Fast forward to 21st century, and I have a great scanner (Scansnap) and I scan everything. I keep all my letters in Evernote (which is searchable, even if handwritten) and I keep postcards in a database using Airtable. (Yes : color me crazy.). I do send about 75-100 postcards every month now, and if I sign up for a round robin, I can keep track this way. Also there are people I send a lot of cards to, and it helps me avoid duplicates etc.
Sometimes I wonder if I make too much work for myself. It would be easier, surely, to just write & forget. Lol.
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Post by schnacks on Mar 4, 2018 19:13:46 GMT
Okay, I've upped the ante. I am now using an online database to keep track of my Postcrossing activities (it's a lot, I do round robins and send from 50-100 cards a month) and a new database for letters. All of this organizing calms my mind. I think I'm a little strange, taking my analog hobby and injecting technology into it. All of this organizing means that in the wake of Incowrimo, my reply pile is now at (gulp) 43. Yes, FORTY-THREE. I received a lot of replies from Incowrimo, plus a bunch of surprises, and suddenly all of my family and friends who haven't written to me for a year, decided to write in February. As if they felt the Incowrimo vibes, without knowing of its existence.
I am writing furiously. Some of you here are on that list: I have not forgotten you!
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