an interactive guide to preserving your personal history
Archiving is a part of your routine and daily habits that you participate in with intention, care and love.
The people have asked + they shall recieve.
Your history is now. Taking your narrative back is the assignment.
This is a digital workbook of sorts to walk through maintaining across the month. You can return here as you please. Pick up where you left off and change things around based on new things that you have learned.
Don’t be afraid of making mistakes. You’re human.
Your story is valuable.
Week One: Getting Started
You’ve spent years documenting your life, family, friends, and everything in between. This week will help you design a system that works for you, make space and tasks to follow when working with your photographs, journals and documents.
Now is the time to start maintaining a database.
Your future self will thank you.
Week Two: Maintaining a Custodial Database
Ain’t eem gone hold you. This is the boring part, you have to keep going. A lot of the work becomes monotonous and you will need to stay consistent to keep track of everything.
This will require you to find joy in your archive to move forward and see progress.
Week Three: Reckoning with Grief
We forget key points of lives easily. You make room for more moments or an event happened that your body didn’t feel safe in. This week will introduce you some skills working through grief and reckoning while working with the documents in your archive.
Bring a tissue box, you might need it.
Week Four: Staying Organized
You’re almost to the proverbial finish line. Depending on your goal that you set at the beginning of the month. This week will help you reevaluate how you use your database, changes that need to be made and moving things around so that you can show up next month.
Week Five: Preparing For The Future
You’re almost to the proverbial finish line. Depending on your goal that you set at the beginning of the month. This week will help you reevaluate how you use your database, changes that need to be made and moving things around so that you can show up next month.