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Essentials Week spotlights unexpected items that make our daily lives just a little bit better.

There they sat on the groaning shelf, looking like a rebuke to the entire digital era: years of handwritten journals. Some were slim notebook folders, but most were hefty tomes — half-scrapbook, half-angsty accounts of my school and college days, or bulging clips of magazine bylines. All were annoyingly irreplaceable pieces of personal history I'd carted around from house to house over the years like a ball and chain. 

So far, they had flagrantly refused to digitize themselves. But I wasn't sure if I should digitize them, either. The reason sat next to them: folders full of printouts, equally unique.  Read more...