I’ve been thinking of changing all my haiku over to an SQL database for use in a website. Since I’m looking to rummage through them and categorize them, this might be a good time to put them into that kind of shape.
Since I do all my writing in BBEdit (because it doesn’t suck), what I’ll probably do is combine the contents of the monthly haiku files and then do some search and replacing to make single returns into tabs and multiple returns into single returns and that will go nicely into either a database or spreadsheet. Easy. Just some fiddling usually to “massage” everything into shape.
There’s a good reason for picking a way to do things and doing it consistently on the computer: makes it easier to get the computer to change things into something different!
