I just managed to discover how to get Stickies on my desktop again — I haven't had them since I went from a PC to a Mac years ago. I didn't realise they were there hiding in a Stickies database in my Library folder all this time.
And now I've got them back again, along with that accompanying sense of supreme contentment that goes with victory over electronic bafflement.
Do you know what I mean (about Stickies)? Look —
That's my desktop, with my WIP folder and my folder of general stuff, and now also the vital facility of Stickies with which I am reunited, so I can not only make myself a note not to forget something but actually put it where I cannot help seeing it and therefore will actually remember it — not just re-discover it two months later when it's too late.
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Congratulations. I was without a computer for about a year. In that year I forgot many things. So well done.
That must have made a huge difference to your life! Did you discover positive aspects, or was it just difficult? I often think about making an actual choice to have no computer, but I'm not sure that choice still exists now; in the last few years, changes in the commercial and banking sectors have moved the landscape of everyday life in favour of electronic connection. If I did not own a computer, I'd just have to go down to the library and use the public ones there. I guess I'd have to take a memory stick with my work on it. The first two books I wrote were long-hand, typed up for me by kind friends, but from that point on I have relied on electronic systems. I suppose I'd need a bigger living space as well, to store books and files, a camera and a music player, a torch and a phone and a diary and a calendar and stationery and a box for correspondence and a desk . . . Yikes! What a difference computers have made!!
There's such a thing as Stickies????
***Rapunzel scurries off to do a search***
I'd be quite lost without my smart phone which I use even more that my computer these days...it is amazing.
Hi Rebecca — yes, I remember learning back in the day before we had smart phones that Japanese people were working towards a time when all their correspondence etc could be kept on their phones, as well as their music, cameras etc — I couldn't imagine how that could be!
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