You know how when you have that one room in your house that’s a huge mess? And it embarrasses you so you keep the door closed? And you don’t even want to think about where to start so you never go in there to try to get it organized? Even though you know that if you just did a little bit of work every day, it would eventually become more and more manageable?
That’s about where I was with my blog’s “Categories” list over at The Old Place.
Too many categories, lots of overlap, no hierarchy (everything top level).
There are also a couple of (mental) categories that I think I might like to purge, or at least, seriously edit the posts in them, or put a massive disclaimer on them or something. But because the categories are so poorly organized, that project is harder than it needs to be.
So. Recently I wrote down all my existing categories on little slips of paper. There are about 100. And I rearranged them and grouped them.
And now, a bit at a time, I’m figuring out what the new categories need to be. So, for example, today I picked up three little cards I had grouped together. I created a new temporary parent category for them. And I’m going through the posts in that group and reassigning them, mostly to one new category, a few to a different one.
As I create categories that actually work, I might be able to add them one at a time to the right sidebar. I hope so. I’ll try it soon.
Anyway, that’s just a little update. Back to more regular blogging soon.
EDITED TO ADD: I put a Categories menu with a single “sampler” category in the right sidebar (bottom, in a menu). Try it out!
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