Three Things!

[rsadelle]

I have three things because I wanted to make a post about something, and I couldn't come up with more than three that I really wanted to post about.

1. I have a lot of snippets and ficlets lying about in my Google Docs that haven't been posted here because I don't know what to title them. I will take any and all suggestions for how to go about titling things. (There's also a ficlet I don't want to post because they go shopping at Wal-Mart, which is not an activity I endorse. The rest of the story is incest fic involving a non-celebrity sibling.)

2. bandgirlsbang is happening this year! My pairing is okay! I can totally finish this story by October 15. (I can actually probably finish it and do half the editing by then. \o/) You should also sign up if that is at all your kind of thing.

3. Some friends and I have a fic rec thread where we email recs back and forth. One of said friends today added us to a Google Doc where she's been keeping track of recs - from the thread and not - and other things she wants to read. This is way more centralized than my approach. If I see something in the wild that I want to read but not at the moment, I will either (a) remember how to find it again (for example, I know that one of the things I haven't yet clicked on tagged harry/draco+ewe is a 100K story I think I want to come back to on a weekend) or (b) bookmark it (whether or not I ever come back to those is a different matter). For things on the thread or in other emails, I star the message with the link and tag the thread *fic recs (I also have a **fic recs to read soon tag, which was supposed to help me not have so much stuff in my inbox, but I don't necessarily go look at that tag, so mostly things are in my inbox). How do you keep track of things you want to read but haven't?

Comments

[inlovewithnight.livejournal.com]

Non celebrity sibling incest fic. \o/!

...I mean, what?

[lakeeffectgirl.livejournal.com]

This.

[rsadelle]

♥

[rsadelle]

Hee! I will have to put a title on it and slap on a Wal-Mart warning and post it.

[norwich36.livejournal.com]

For number 3, I tag it "toread" on delicious, if it's something I want to read but not immediately--that way I can include relevant details (fandom, pairing, wip or not, etc). I probably read about 70% of that stuff--my real probably is remembering to delete it from delicious or retag it if I want to keep it. I do this even with stuff from the email thread, because that thread is daunting to search through.

For stuff I want to read in the next 24 hours, I just open it in a Firefox tab and keep the tab until I actually read it.

[rsadelle]

Ah, delicious. I use delicious all the time to find things, but I hardly ever tag things there. My delicious tags are mostly my fic and things I know I'll want to find later. I also don't like to click on things until I'm actually going to read them because part of the way I keep track of whether or not I've read something is if the link has been clicked or not. I suppose I could create a toread tag, but I'm afraid it would end up just like my Firefox bookmarks where I would never ever go back to them.

See, starring things makes it much easier to navigate the thread - if I open it when there isn't a new message, the starred things are expanded and everything else is collapsed.

[dine.livejournal.com]

How do you keep track of things you want to read but haven't?

I tend to e-mail links + any pertinent clues (fandom, etc.) to myself, then dump the e-mails into a folder until I get around to them

[rsadelle]

That seems like a good solution! Do you actually go back to them or do you end up like me with a ton of things you mean to read but never do?

[dine.livejournal.com]

I actually do get back to most of them eventually (though it can take a while) - the nice thing about this method is that when I'm feeling bored I've a variety of stories to choose from, without having 5 million tabs open for weeks on end. and sometimes I find upon rereading the summary that it no longer appeals, so clearing that one takes no time at all *g*

[rsadelle]

Wow. I'm impressed! I do find that when I (rarely) go through the things I have bookmarked, half of them no longer sound interesting - sometimes I think that's why I bookmark them instead of just reading.

[eleanor-lavish.livejournal.com]

1) I love that you're all "I have this awesome incest fic, but Walmart is in it! Moral dilemma!"

3) Keep in mind it took me SIX MONTHS of that thread to actually make a doc. And that was because I kept reading the emails at work, which meant I never clicked on any of them, and then they were LOST!

[rsadelle]

1) I'm glad you understand my priorities!

3) This is why I star things! If I come back to the thread, the starred things are expanded and the rest are collapsed, so I just have to remember that there is something I want to read and I can find it easily again.

[lakeeffectgirl.livejournal.com]

I tend to open the story in a new tab and then hope my computer doesn't crash until I can read it. If I'm at work and there's something I want to read but can't until I'm at home, I will email myself the link.

[rsadelle]

Egads, I would end up with so many tabs! I usually don't have more than five or six open at once.