Paperwork, documents created, screenshots taken, bookmarked web pages, video and audio files.

Each gets a website.

These websites aren’t complicated – they’re just meant to be a slightly nicer way of browsing files than I get in the macOS Finder.

Each collection is a folder on my local disk, and the website is one or more HTML files in the root of that folder. To use the website, I open the HTML files in my web browser.

I’m deliberately going low-scale, low-tech. There’s no web server, no build system, no dependencies, and no JavaScript frameworks. I’m writing everything by hand, which is very manageable for small projects. Each website is a few hundred lines of code at most.

These are created and curated by hand.

I think this could be a powerful idea for digital preservation, as a way to describe born-digital archives.