I'm so sorry you're unhappy with your current system! It's ridiculously hard to figure out exactly what's going to work, not just for now, but going forward AND incorporating the past.
Everything I've read is deleted from Firefox and instead saved to Delicious using lots and lots of tags in the hope that I can find the fic again ten years from now.
This is an excellent point that hasn't really been talked about much so far. How can you predict the thing about a fic that you're going to remember? General tropes might seem like a good bet (kidfic! amnesia! hurt/comfort!), but very often I go searching for a story again not because I want to read the one where they get drunk on shore leave and wake up married—paramaters that encompass approximately a billion stories, but searchable once you break it down by fandom, pairing, etc.—what I want is that story with that one scene, that one line, the detail that may or may not have been intrinsic to the plot, but that almost definitely didn't make it into my tags or pullquote or review. A quick flip through any ficfinders community will reveal that I am not alone in this. Though, I mean, yes, obviously I will ALSO want to re-read the ones where they get drunk on shore leave and wake up married. So maybe we'll always need ficfinders communities for the other stuff. That's hardly the worst thing in the world though, is it? Or a platform that performed robust and precise content searches, that would help too.
I'd never heard of eFiction, but it looks like a heavyweight system. And there's been good buzz about diigo, but one of the main selling points is that it archives content; if it doesn't, I don't really see the use in switching to a bookmarking site that fewer people are using. :/
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Everything I've read is deleted from Firefox and instead saved to Delicious using lots and lots of tags in the hope that I can find the fic again ten years from now.
This is an excellent point that hasn't really been talked about much so far. How can you predict the thing about a fic that you're going to remember? General tropes might seem like a good bet (kidfic! amnesia! hurt/comfort!), but very often I go searching for a story again not because I want to read the one where they get drunk on shore leave and wake up married—paramaters that encompass approximately a billion stories, but searchable once you break it down by fandom, pairing, etc.—what I want is that story with that one scene, that one line, the detail that may or may not have been intrinsic to the plot, but that almost definitely didn't make it into my tags or pullquote or review. A quick flip through any ficfinders community will reveal that I am not alone in this. Though, I mean, yes, obviously I will ALSO want to re-read the ones where they get drunk on shore leave and wake up married. So maybe we'll always need ficfinders communities for the other stuff. That's hardly the worst thing in the world though, is it? Or a platform that performed robust and precise content searches, that would help too.
I'd never heard of eFiction, but it looks like a heavyweight system. And there's been good buzz about diigo, but one of the main selling points is that it archives content; if it doesn't, I don't really see the use in switching to a bookmarking site that fewer people are using. :/