Welcome to Jesh, Annotated
(Formerly, Drawers and Pockets) and how my knowledge management system, as an information hoarder and quasi researcher, is becoming my personality. (this is for you if you like furniture items).
Another season, another long overdue restructuring.
Here's a quick recap of how my art project has evolved:
(2015) (name redacted, I will not elaborate) - The dark ages, the embarrassment, and the perfect balance of cringe and edgy, and snob. (oh my god if you remember this era please don’t un-"redacted"). I left this era along with all my audacity to write and publish long form.
(2017-ish) /zeen/ not /zign/ - Less of an embarrassment but more rage
(2020-2023) - gap year
(2023) Drawers and Pockets - in my Marie Kondo era of decluttering my thoughts
I am not retiring Drawers and Pockets. It's more of, expanding. From the mess of junk drawer-like notes and pocketful of lists and dumps (which I never posted btw), it's time to have a structured counterpart, with Desks and Shelves (I am, once again reiterating, not fixated with IKEA).
As someone who loves to learn, I tend to hoard information and contexts. But similar to the tangible items and trinkets I hoard, they get shoved into the drawers (which will never see the light of day), turning into a whole lot of mess. The same goes with the handy dandy information I am expecting to be inside my pocket but most of the time I get to pull out receipts and bus tickets that are not relevant. I hope you see the picture because I am simply rambling and the mess in my head is similar to the tangible/physical mess I have.
From Drawers and Pockets, this is where Desks and Shelves come in. For context, this shift came from when I did some overhaul in my digital organization system. *Yea, sorry I tried PARA and ACCESS and other stuff the productivity space has introduced but with some tweaks, I figured something that is actually for me.*
I am now organizing my digital notes/archives in analogy to how I interact with my resources and notes in a tangible setting (and I love using furniture items to describe it):
Desks - Work gets done here, including files for active projects, journaling, writing, etc.
Shelves - Sorted out resources. Including notes from books, films, courses, talks, etc. Which I know I will use or write something about
Drawers - Yea, the junk drawer. This is where the archives and the "for later" notes reside.
Pockets - For handy dandy reference/notes. Personal wiki of practical things I surely need from time to time e.g., operating hours of establishments in my area, memory log of the food I hated so I won't be fooled with its fancy name again, expiration dates of my pantry items, etc.
With this in mind, I think it's also fair to expand Drawers and Pockets (as in the art project). I've been struggling a lot in creating in the past few years, I figured I haven't hoarded enough but it turns out it's long overdue for me to put things into existence again. It felt like I'd been inhaling and inhaling without exhaling, and it’s been a while since I intentionally sat down and heard my thoughts because I was drowning in stimulation and distraction.
To capture the balance of hoarding, processing, and creating, I am re-introducing this project with a new name, "Jesh, Annotated". So what will you see in the future?
Mini essays on books, films, theater, etc., and correlating them to other contexts and experiences while getting distracted and going off-tangent.
A little bit of drawings? Attempt on graphic diary perhaps.
Probably going back to poetry.
We shall see what else in the future. Alright, that's it for now, see you next time.
-Jesh