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.
D: Dude, I do not blame you! Anything that takes even one extra step is a huge mental and physical burden, especially if you have to do it repeatedly on a large scale, ESPECIALLY if you know it can be done so much easier and simpler somewhere else.
And now it's my system, so I'm very reluctant to just save the webpage even when it makes my life easier.
YES, this. It can't just be an intellectual exercise in what the best system would be going forward, because you already HAVE all this fic saved and these habits ingrained.
Re-reading is such an intrinsic part of the way I read, and definitely inextricable from the way I read fic. Also, hoarding tendencies, I have no idea what you're talking about, what? *COUGH* Due to hard drive failure I wound up losing a few months worth of fic (and whatever other data I had gained/deleted/modified since my last external backup, but it was fortunately very little) last summer, but after my initial DDDDDDD: reaction, I remembered it was all saved in my delicious, and I was able to re-download almost 100% of it. For a little while though I tried to console myself by reminding myself that it was just fanfic, that it wasn't the end of the world, etc., etc., but I was so grateful to get it back, and so grateful that my backup files were intact, and that's when I started conceptualizing my saved fic as a genuine library, painstakingly curated and lovingly maintained over the course of many years, and a big part of my life. And I didn't have to diminish or dismiss it, or the depth of my emotional reaction to the loss (or potential loss) of it.
There's no use opening 50 tabs of Harry/Draco if what you really want is that shiny new fandom over there.
I used to have guilt about this! Enter delicious, to store things until such time as I'm ready to read them, because it all comes around again. Bring on the shiny!
Re: *via metafandom delicious*
D: Dude, I do not blame you! Anything that takes even one extra step is a huge mental and physical burden, especially if you have to do it repeatedly on a large scale, ESPECIALLY if you know it can be done so much easier and simpler somewhere else.
And now it's my system, so I'm very reluctant to just save the webpage even when it makes my life easier.
YES, this. It can't just be an intellectual exercise in what the best system would be going forward, because you already HAVE all this fic saved and these habits ingrained.
Re-reading is such an intrinsic part of the way I read, and definitely inextricable from the way I read fic. Also, hoarding tendencies, I have no idea what you're talking about, what? *COUGH* Due to hard drive failure I wound up losing a few months worth of fic (and whatever other data I had gained/deleted/modified since my last external backup, but it was fortunately very little) last summer, but after my initial DDDDDDD: reaction, I remembered it was all saved in my delicious, and I was able to re-download almost 100% of it. For a little while though I tried to console myself by reminding myself that it was just fanfic, that it wasn't the end of the world, etc., etc., but I was so grateful to get it back, and so grateful that my backup files were intact, and that's when I started conceptualizing my saved fic as a genuine library, painstakingly curated and lovingly maintained over the course of many years, and a big part of my life. And I didn't have to diminish or dismiss it, or the depth of my emotional reaction to the loss (or potential loss) of it.
There's no use opening 50 tabs of Harry/Draco if what you really want is that shiny new fandom over there.
I used to have guilt about this! Enter delicious, to store things until such time as I'm ready to read them, because it all comes around again. Bring on the shiny!