Usually we do Osouji (大掃除) at the end of the year but this year we decided to start in on it a couple weeks early. We'll do the actual washing of things the last day or two. Today we got started on the decluttering.

My "system" for this task is running things through two questions:

1. What is it?
2. Where does it live?

When I stuck to that, things got done. When I deviated, distraction set in.

The great flattening is happening. I am moving away from a folder for each context (home, work, drum, etc.) with a text file for each thought. Now there will be one context folder with a text file for each context.

The plan is to start the thought in Drafts, tag it with the context (ex: @drum), and prepend it to the @drums.txt file.

The hope is having a handful of context files will be less temptation to waste time in than a ton of files organizing.