# The notes shelf — a drawer, not a filing cabinet

1 Aug 2026 · Notes · flove notes blog shelf

Some rooms have filing cabinets: everything indexed, everything in its place, alphabetical, perfect, and — let’s be honest — a little dead. Other rooms have a drawer. You throw things in it while you’re working, pull them out when you need them, and every so often the drawer gives you back something you’d forgotten you had. The notes shelf is flove’s drawer.

## What’s on it

The notes shelf holds the short things from the workbench: a small fix that took an hour, a decision that deserves a sentence of remembering, a thought that’s not a whole essay yet. It’s where the earliest voices of the blog actually arrived — the welcome note and the first hello that told you what flove believes: relate, don’t extract. Those were notes before the shelf had a name, and they still live here.

This is the shelf where the blog’s older vocabulary is slowly being translated, too — the posts that arrived before the blog had its five shelves get tidied and re-homed so the drawer stays coherent.

## How it got here

Notes came first, naturally. Before there were standards, before the pipeline, there were the little written-down things that turned into flove’s voice. When the blog launched, those fragments got a home; when the blog grew from three shelves to five, the notes got theirs. The rule of the drawer is simple and it was decided on day one: short, honest, as they happen — nothing filed for posterity’s sake.

## What’s ahead

- As they come — the drawer doesn’t keep a schedule. Notes land when the workbench produces them.
- A little organizing — old posts that predate the five shelves get tidy, readable homes without losing their original voice.
- Cross-fertilization — a note that grows up gets promoted to a full post on the shelf it belongs to; a note that stays a note stays a note.

A filing cabinet tells you where everything is. A drawer tells you what you were actually doing. flove would rather know the second one.

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