Memo in the Sky

When something is done, you don't just delete it. You burn it. Things to do. Things to remember. Things you want kept in plain sight for a while. What you write becomes a wooden plank and floats in a blue sky. It stays there until you are finished with it. When you are, hold the plank under your finger. It smolders, catches fire, burns through, and falls away as ash. A checkbox turns grey. A line slips quietly off a list. That is not much of an ending. So the ending is the part I made large. Once it burns, nothing is left You burned it, so nothing remains. I chose burning rather than deleting because that needs no explanation. No history is kept of what you wrote or what you burned. What remains is in your own mind instead, clearly, for a while. That is how I meant it to work. This is a place for things you only need to hold briefly. Anything you will need to look back on later, write…