Well, one of my big problems with tagging in MS, is that it won't let me use / in a tag. That's basically the primary way I sort (like, on a macro level) AND it won't autocomplete or let me see what other tags I have when I'm trying to tag a fic. Which basically makes the tagging system useless for my purposes. I have almost 1,000 tags that are specifically fic tags. There's no way I can remember if I had, say, Harry or Charlie first. And then I'd have duplicates and messes and I'd spend more time trying to fix the tagging then using the tagging. I guess I was more upset about that then I thought. I mean, cuz you can embed that information in the properties->details by right clicking the file but that's a huge amount of extra work that I can do in delicious in about 15 seconds.
It took me a long time to realize that I could just save the webpage instead of copypasta the text. But to be fair, it wouldn't have helped me in the middle when I was printing stuff out. I'd still have to reformat it. And now it's my system, so I'm very reluctant to just save the webpage even when it makes my life easier.
Re: rereading. Yeah, that's a habit I picked up from actualfax novels. I plowed through the romance section so quickly at my local library I had to get used to rereading stuff if I wanted stuff to still read. That's partially what made me start saving stuff too. The 1,000 (I wish I were joking) paper back novels I can't bear to part with in my attic I mean. It's possible I have hoarding tendencies. On your scale of zen data loss in reply to another person? 10, or possibly infinity. I would cry.
Re: older stories. Sometimes I save massive 'old school' rec pages, just so I know where to start. Of course half the links are dead, and it doesn't work if I'm not interested in that particular fandom at the moment. There's no use opening 50 tabs of Harry/Draco if what you really want is that shiny new fandom over there.
Re: *via metafandom delicious*
It took me a long time to realize that I could just save the webpage instead of copypasta the text. But to be fair, it wouldn't have helped me in the middle when I was printing stuff out. I'd still have to reformat it. And now it's my system, so I'm very reluctant to just save the webpage even when it makes my life easier.
Re: rereading. Yeah, that's a habit I picked up from actualfax novels. I plowed through the romance section so quickly at my local library I had to get used to rereading stuff if I wanted stuff to still read. That's partially what made me start saving stuff too. The 1,000 (I wish I were joking) paper back novels I can't bear to part with in my attic I mean. It's possible I have hoarding tendencies. On your scale of zen data loss in reply to another person? 10, or possibly infinity. I would cry.
Re: older stories. Sometimes I save massive 'old school' rec pages, just so I know where to start. Of course half the links are dead, and it doesn't work if I'm not interested in that particular fandom at the moment. There's no use opening 50 tabs of Harry/Draco if what you really want is that shiny new fandom over there.