Not to be outdone by a more famous Plymouth out East, my hometown of Plymouth MN had a contest to identify the city’s largest rock: history.plymouthmn.gov/a-tale-of-tw....

In terms of Cather, maybe her novel The Professor’s House. For what it’s worth, Cather did mention enjoying Woolf: cather.unl.edu/writings/let...

This essay by Charles Chesnutt: chesnuttarchive.org/item/ccda.wo...

Willa Cather’s essay “My First Novels (There Were Two),” reprinted in Willa Cather on Writing.

Maybe National Humanities Alliance? www.studythehumanities.org/toolkit

I just use the free version; I’m not uploading files, just using it to track tasks, which works well! My sense is that the paid subscriptions are aimed at teams of multiple users / businesses.

I use the free version of Notion to organize tasks for large projects. (They’re pushing AI in their marketing, but I have found it easy to use without the AI tools.)

I sometimes use hashtags in my own docs as a way to easily find / sort things. You could use an app like Google Keep to take notes on individual events, but also develop a series of personal hashtags (spring, sunny, soccer, etc) that make it easy to search across all notes for a particular tag.

AAUP does include some limits on academic freedom, including professional ethics and collective responsibility. Might be relevant to ask “does using AI violate some professional ethics? Is the decision one for individuals or a collective responsibility?” www.aaup.org/programs/aca...