My Digital A–Z Portrait
The sites my browser has committed to memory
Given how much time I spend using a web browser, I wondered how accurate a portrait of my interests it might return. So I typed each letter of the alphabet into the search/URL bar, one by one, and have recorded the websites suggested by autocomplete:
A—Are.na
B—Bluesky
C—Cyclemarks
D—DuckDuckGo
E—My bank’s online portal
F—Feedbin
G—GitHub
H—Hot Pizza (a social art/art-education project my wife started)
I—Instagram
J—My wife’s website
K—A server hosting Hot Pizza’s website
L—Linear
M—Moneypuck
N—NHL
O—Obsidian
P—Plaintextsports
Q—Quickbooks
R—Readwise Reader
S—This website
T—Toronto Public Library
U—Analytics tool for Valise
V—Valise
W—Are.na (with a www …)
X—Twitter
Y—YouTube
Z—ZSA Voyager keyboard (I was window shopping recently)
It’s a pretty accurate portrait, even down to my new obsession with the NHL—thanks to my older kid beginning to play hockey, and my desire to find more shared passions for us—muscling in on my love of NBA basketball.
The only sites I tend to visit most days that didn’t show up are phanpy.social, which is a web client for Mastodon, and Reddit (which showed up indirectly through the keyboard company commandeering the letter Z). But they’ll never eclipse Plaintextsports, which I visit multiple times a day, and Readwise Reader, where I do all my article and PDF reading and which I keep in a pinned tab.
I’m curious to see others’ “A–Z portraits,” whether as blog posts or by email. What sites do you visit most often?