I’ve been thinking a lot about how to organize Field Notes. At first, I assumed I needed to catalog the topics I wrote about. A note about bubbles should probably be tagged with bubbles. A note about fragrance should probably mention perfume. Before long I found myself imagining endless lists of increasingly specific things to maintain. It felt strangely familiar. Libraries have spent generations thinking about how people discover information. One of the first lessons they teach is that not everything deserves the same kind of stewardship. A search engine is remarkably good at finding words like bubbles, rainstorms, OceanLab, or linen. Those things already live naturally in the writing. Every sentence quietly becomes an index. What deserves more care are the subjects. A bubble experiment might belong to Physical Science. A reflection on organizing this website might belong to Library Science. Those subjects change slowly. They become places where seemingly unrelated Field Notes can discover one another over time. I realized I wasn’t trying to catalog everything. I was tending a landscape. The details are free to grow wild. The landscapes are cared for. There’s something comforting about that. It feels less like organizing a website and more like caring for a garden. Search can wander through the flowers. I only have to tend the paths between them.