Last month I searched my blog to figure out our favorite green bean variety from last year, so we could plant mostly those this year.

Last week I searched my blog when Steven asked the name of the hotel we stayed at in Dresden.

Last week I searched my blog for a specific date my mom asked me about from June 2006.

Yesterday I searched my blog to find my review of a book so I could tell Anita what I thought of it.

Could all of these things potentially be found in other systems – calendar, notes, GoodReads, etc.? Yes.

Is it super convenient to just search my public diary and find them? Also, yes.  I don’t document everything (publicly) here, but it sure does come in handy to have a lot of my life documented!

(I’m listening to a really cheesy/bad book right now about a woman who has amnesia and can’t remember which boyfriend (of THREE she was casually dating) she was about to tell she loved before she was hit by a car, so she is going on dates with all of them to figure it out. She’s missing A LOT of information about her life, and my first thought was “too bad she doesn’t have a blog.” Ha.)