The idea for this book, or whatever it’s best described as, came about in the spring of 2022 when I got an alert on my iPhone: “You have 500 tabs open, and 467 older than one month. To open more you will need to close some tabs.”

So I went back to my first open tab and realized that this set of 500 tabs spanned nearly two years of searches – terms from grad school seminars I probably should’ve understood but still didn’t, recipes and measurement equivalencies, film and music reviews, baseball box scores, and lots of tabs devoted to people and things I wanted to know more about.

In sifting through these tabs, I’ve also found an archive that has tracked my thinking, interests, habits, attempted hobbies, and physical locations. Better still, the record these tabs hold has been able to color the last two years in a uniquely vibrant way – similarly, I imagine, to the way a journal would if I had the patience to keep one. Instead, I have these digital entries of a log I never knew I was keeping. The contents of this book are just a handful of those I found most interesting, personally significant, or enduring. I hope you find something worthwhile in here, too. If you’re not already sold, check out an excerpt below!