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Notes App Epiphanies

Notes App Epiphanies

On the modern diary.

11 Nov

Dirt contributors and friends share epiphanies, to do lists, and nonsense from their notes app.

In the middle of the pandemic, disillusioned by the onslaught of internet sludge, my high school best friend and I created a shared notes app entitled “norah and lina’s twitter.” We treated it like our own rudimentary social media, tucked away from the rest of the world, just for us. It felt like our middle finger to the internet, choosing to co-opt modern contemporary technology on our own terms.

The notes app is nothing more, really, than the most basic word processor. At any given moment of epiphany, it’s there in your back pocket, ready to capture the musings of your internal monologue. It preserves thoughts that would have otherwise disappeared on scraps of paper lost within the drawers of your bedside table. Thoughts so unimportant that they are forgotten until you look back on them years later and admire your genius.

At any given moment of epiphany, it’s there in your back pocket, ready to capture the musings of your internal monologue.

In her Sacred Screenshots exhibition, Maya Man asked artists to share a “sacred screenshot,” treating this vernacular and banal basic technology as an art form in itself. In kind, we asked Dirt friends and contributors to share epiphanies, to do lists, and nonsense from their notes app.