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Cimorene ([personal profile] cimorene) wrote2007-12-29 09:49 pm
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keeping up with the technology

I've kinda been neglecting my recs page because it's so gargantuan and, in its current incarnation, useless. See, I used to use it as a source of bookmarks for myself, before social bookmarking or tags existed, and doing it manually was the best way. It was a more inclusive list than the things I'd include in it nowadays - more like delicious, where I bookmark things if I enjoy them and want to reread them even if they're badfic, usually. (Not quite that permissive.)

So I have this recs page made up of categorised and alphabetised links, hundreds of them, some of them entered seven years ago and many of them broken; and now I have delicious for organising actual bookmarks in a much more convenient way, leaving the recs page, in theory, only for actual recs that I'd have something to say about.

I decided I wanted to clean my recs page up, transferring its contents to delicious and then making a new, more abbreviated one from its, er, ashes. But I didn't count on how time-consuming that would be: I didn't used to record the lengths of what I read, not to mention that I don't remember most of these stories so I have to copy the comments from my recs page for delicious. Each story is a minimum of four clicks, plus all the typing to put in the tags. I started at the first fandom page at my site - due South - and I've only entered 26 and am already tired of it. I guess it'll be an ongoing project.

[identity profile] esorlehcar.livejournal.com 2007-12-30 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
I transferred all my SPN recs to del.icio.us last year some time... I had roughly 300, at the time. It took about a week, all told spending an hour or two every evening and then the better part of a Saturday, and that was with relatively recent links for which I already had word counts. I'm glad I did, in that it's made my life infinitely easier reccing wise, but it was definitely a project.

[identity profile] cimness.livejournal.com 2007-12-30 01:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, well... actually that's reassuring! That time investment isn't as bad as I'd thought. And I definitely want to get it done...