A small favour

[ratherastory]

Dear flist, can I ask a quick favour?

I am having a completely random and trivial bout of wibbling over how my Master List of fic is organized. Specifically, I'm wondering if that post has become too big and unwieldy -even with the handy html that takes you from section to section- and if I should split it into two or something. My concern is that splitting it might actually make things worse in terms of accessibility.

So if you have half a second, would you mind taking a look and then making with the clicky in this handy-dandy poll?

Thank you!


[Poll #1726303]

Comments

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

That's what I was thinking, except that there's so much SPN fic that I'm not sure the post wouldn't just stay really unwieldy. There would definitely be links back and forth, though.

[maerhys.livejournal.com]

The pro is that you have a lot to read so that is a v. good thing. I am not really sure... have you thought about using something like delicious instead? Or set up a master list for master lists so you could have universes, one-shots, longer fic?

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Someone else mentioned delicious which hadn't occurred to me. It's an interesting idea, though with the recent scare of delicious shutting down I'd have to have a back-up somewhere...

A master list of master lists could be interesting. That way the other posts wouldn't have to be "stickied" at the top of my LJ... *ponders*

[maerhys.livejournal.com]

I am currently using delicious because I was worried about hitting the LJ character limit for a post... eventually. =D Dotfic and Velvetine01 also use delicious for their masterlists and I find them to be super helpful, especially for Dot's work because she's been writing for so long and writes in several fandoms. Delicious lets me sort for things v. quickly. I am pretty sure delicious is safe now that Google is looking at buying it (you can even make a new account and sign into it under your gmail address, which I just love), but Diigo allows you to import and export delicious bookmarks. I am thinking about using it as a "just in case" back-up as well.

I think Halfshellvenus uses a master post of master posts which I found really helpful, again, for sorting via fandom, etc.

I don't think you can go wrong as long as you have something up, you know? I am reading this incredible writer at the moment who has been writing fan fic for a decade and she only has her fic organized by tag. It's a lot more difficult to follow and locate things. :/

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Interesting. I already have a delicious account, do you know if I'd have to sign up with a different one in order to organize only my own fic? Or can I create, I don't know, an affiliated list that would work the same way?

[maerhys.livejournal.com]

If you want one just for your fic and nothing else, you'd need a new account. I do know some folks bookmark their own fic and filter it via their username in order to avoid having another account.

I have two: one for my fic that is my "master list" and the other is for fan fic that I save, picspams... anything fandom-related that is not mine.

[ratherastory.livejournal.com]

Okay, thank you! I'll probably open one with my gmail account, in that case. My other one I already have for, like you, fandom-related links that aren't mine.