I’ve been posting regularly on this blog for nearly three years. In that time, I’ve tweaked the layout and design. I ended up with a space that’s uniquely my own and one that reflects my personal tastes. Scattered among links to my favorite articles and random inter-day updates are larger bodies of work. Specifically, I have a podcast, a reading log, and a massive collection of daily haiku.

Up until earlier this year, I had a single page for each of these three types of posts. On each page, in reverse chronological order, I had lists of links to each post in the category. Visitors to my site could easily scroll through a very long list to find a particular post, date, or title.

The problem is that these pages were getting too long. A single page of my daily haiku contained over 650 links. My podcast is nearing Episode 160, and I’ve read more than 80 books in the past three years alone. I wanted to bring a better sense of organization and structure. In a word, I wanted curation.

Thanks to an idea from the founder of Micro.blog, Manton, I’m nearing completion of my reorganized archives. I still have a page for my podcasts, a page for my reading log, and a page for my haiku. Now, for each of these categories, I have posts organized by year. When you visit the link in my blog’s navigation, you get a list of the current year’s posts. As you scroll to the page footer, you’re offered links to previous years.

This is a much better way to organize my work. It took some effort to get to all put together, but I’m very satisfied with the results.