We tidied up the article categories on passed.jp. Two things changed. Challenge logs about work still in progress were carved out of "Essay" and moved into a new category called "Challenge." And an "About the categories" note now sits permanently at the top of the article list.
The trigger was simple: the articles have been piling up little by little. That is something to be grateful for, but as the number grows, it gets harder to find what you want to read. Rather than just saying "we tidied up," this notice puts into words what we organized and why.
Why did we split "Essay"?
Because articles of a different nature had been mixed into it.
Until now, every article about growing or moving forward went into "Essay." As we kept writing, though, we noticed that a few pieces of a slightly different character had slipped in.
Most essays are calm reads that settle in and look back on something already finished. Those have their place. But a few articles were still in motion: pieces where we "haven't managed it yet" and "can't be sure of the outcome," with our hands still on the work. A finished look-back and a present-tense struggle, side by side. Each time we reread the list, that pairing felt more and more off.
What goes into the new "Challenge" category?
Challenge logs about work that is still in progress.
If the nature is different, the place should be different too. With that in mind, we made a new present-tense category called "Challenge."
What we did is simple. We moved the challenge logs that had been in "Essay" into "Challenge." That's all. Think of it as a marker: whatever we are still in the middle of goes here. Organizing doesn't suddenly make anything dramatically better. It only means that articles of a similar nature now sit together.
Where can you check what each category means?
At the top of the article list, in a permanent "About the categories" note.
Once the categories are split, the next thing you want to know is which category holds what. So we gathered a short description of what each category collects and placed it at the top of the article list.
We won't re-explain every category one by one in this notice. When you want a landmark to search by, look at the top of the article list. It's all laid out there.
To close
This should make what you want to read a little easier to find than before.
It's a small change. But the articles will keep growing, and each time they do, we'll quietly go on tidying up like this. Thank you, as always, for being here.
