A couple of tricks
One of the benefits of writing these posts and storing them electronically is the ability to call back the details of a post using just a few key words—a valuable asset for a failing memory.
Most of my readers receive these posts as emails, but there is also a Substack website for Indivisible-The High Ground: jerrysindivisible.substack.com where that day’s and all of the prior posts are available. If on some Monday, Wednesday, or Friday a post does not appear in you email inbox, first look in the junk folder, if it’s not there go to the website. (You can also get to this Substack website by Googling “Indivisible the high ground”—maybe that is easier to remember.) Any new post should appear in your inbox and on the website at the same time. If it seems that I’ve quit publishing because the posts no longer appear in your inbox you can check at this Substack website to see if I’m still alive and writing.
I also maintain an archive at another website: jxindivisible.org It serves as a backup that I update every few weeks (that is, the most recent posts may not yet have been uploaded to it). This website has a more robust search function than does the Substack website. At jxindivisible.org I can, for instance, put the word “Baumgartner” in the search box, hit Return, and the search engine will call up every post in which that word appears. This is very useful for writers like me who cannot remember things like first names or the details of some anecdote or fact related to the word I do remember.
Finally, if you visit either of these websites using a desktop or laptop there is a nifty trick that can save you a whole lot of extra reading and skimming. At least on an Apple computer, if you press COMMAND and the letter “F” at roughly the same time, a box will open in to which you can enter a word or phrase to search for in an open document (not every document on the website, just the open document). So if “Baumgartner” appeared only once in the tenth paragraph of a post, COMMAND F will highlight that occurrence. COMMAND F can be a huge time-saver. (If you know of a similar word search method on a iPhone please click Reply and let me know.)
Now you know all my secrets… 🙂
Until Friday,
Keep to the high ground,
Jerry
P.S. I do this writing—and provide all the links—for the purpose of disseminating referenced information. Please feel free to forward these posts, repost them on other platforms, and use the information and the links as the basis for Letters to the Editor. I don’t care about attribution.