keeping up with the technology

[cimorene]

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.

Comments

[cimness.livejournal.com]

Ahahhh, I know what you mean. We all have different compulsions, I guess. I have to get through a whole archive if I start but I don't have to read all the stories, for example - I just have to check to make sure whether I would want to, and read all the ones I would want to read.

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Hee. And I can't do archives or comms at all. I'll get frustrated and give up after looking at like one page worth of fics. I just don't have the patience to scroll through stuff looking for something decent.