stakebait: (Default)
[personal profile] stakebait
You know what I want? A temporary "memories". More precisely, a "bookmark this post and/or link until I get home and can read the long and/or non-worksafe stuff" feature. Because I like checking in on y'all throughout the day (and my FL is so damned chatty I'd never keep up otherwise), but I hate that "read smut in paranoia now or lose it forever" feeling.

Sometimes I stick them in my regular memories, but then they're hard to find and hard to delete and to get that little "add memory" button I still have to at least open the thing on the work computer, even if it's just for a minute. I want a button that saves the post (without actually opening it) to the "stuff to check out later" list. And then once you check it out it disappears from the list, unless you add it to your regular memories. Like LJ Tivo.

Date: 2004-06-10 04:50 pm (UTC)
jadelennox: Senora Sabasa Garcia, by Goya (Default)
From: [personal profile] jadelennox
Oh yes, that'd be brilliant. When I'm on my laptop I just tell Opera to save all my open windows, but at work I can't do that.

Date: 2004-06-10 04:52 pm (UTC)
mangosteen: (Default)
From: [personal profile] mangosteen
Actually, what I want is a "who he me in their memories" feature.

I'm writing to an audience. I can think of no better way to know what's sticking to the memetic wall.

Date: 2004-06-11 02:15 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stakebait.livejournal.com
That could be fun. Though I don't put many things in memories that have stuck in the wetware. Still, it'd feed my ego to know who's got my fic saved. :)

Date: 2004-06-11 02:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stakebait.livejournal.com
Forgot to say,

I'm writing to an audience.

Yes, yes, yes and thank you. This is why I do periodic readership surveys. And much as I appreciate the intent to validate when people say, "it's your journal, write whatever you want", to me that's kind of like "it's your novel, write whatever you want." It is, of course, my journal, and so it's never going to be about soccer or celebrity dating habits, but since I'm not writing to myself, I still want to know what the reader thinks.

Date: 2004-06-10 04:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] filkerdave.livejournal.com
How about making a private post that you link all the things you want to go back to in.

Date: 2004-06-10 05:29 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stakebait.livejournal.com
I still have to open the link to cut and paste it, unfortunately. Otherwise I get just the linking text ("this is interesting", or whatever).

Date: 2004-06-10 05:45 pm (UTC)
akawil: Powerpuff Wil (Default)
From: [personal profile] akawil
There should be something in menu you get when you right-click on a link that copies the link to the clipboard. It's called "Copy Link Location" in Netscape/Mozilla; IE has it too, but I forget what it's called.

Date: 2004-06-10 07:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] milkshake-b.livejournal.com
"Copy Shortcut". A beautiful and wonderful feature indeed.

Date: 2004-06-10 08:54 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stakebait.livejournal.com
*That's* what that means? Thank you tons and tons and tons. I'd assumed it was the same "shortcut" that Windows XP uses to access local files.

Date: 2004-06-11 04:35 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] milkshake-b.livejournal.com
You're welcome--I'm not even sure how I found it, but I'd hate to live without it.

Date: 2004-06-10 04:58 pm (UTC)
avram: (Default)
From: [personal profile] avram
I frequently save URLs in an email message and then send it to my home address.

Date: 2004-06-10 05:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] filkerdave.livejournal.com
Oh yes, that as well!

Date: 2004-06-10 04:59 pm (UTC)
thornsilver: (Default)
From: [personal profile] thornsilver
Some LJ layouts allow you to add to memory straight from the friends page, without opening the entry itself. And you can a cathegory in your memories especially for those entries.

Date: 2004-06-10 05:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stakebait.livejournal.com
Ooh, really? Do you know which ones? If not, I'll have to do trial and error one of these days. Thanks!

Date: 2004-06-10 05:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] meko00.livejournal.com
Mine does that, and I think the style is Opal.

Date: 2004-06-10 08:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stakebait.livejournal.com
Thanks tons!

Date: 2004-06-10 05:55 pm (UTC)
thornsilver: (Default)
From: [personal profile] thornsilver
I've got a "component" layout, which gives you a neat little heart near every entry on your flist.

Date: 2004-06-10 09:02 pm (UTC)

Date: 2004-06-10 05:00 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] swmbo.livejournal.com
Ohhh *sigh* Yes, I want that, to.

Date: 2004-06-10 05:09 pm (UTC)
herself_nyc: (Default)
From: [personal profile] herself_nyc
Cutting and pasting links to an email is a great idea.

At the moment I use my own laptop while at work, and in Safari I have a bookmark menu called Quicksaves, where I throw stuff, mostly fic, that I can't read now but want to get back to soonish. I purge the bookmarks out of that folder as I read the fics. Of course, Safari also has tabbed browsing, so I've usually got stuff open in tabs for days before I get to it. I realize IE still hasn't caught up to this feature.

Date: 2004-06-10 05:14 pm (UTC)
ext_1124: (Default)
From: [identity profile] rainkatt.livejournal.com
I love that idea so much... I have sticky notes that I take home with me... or links that I email myself... drives me nuts.

Date: 2004-06-10 05:21 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] cheshyre
Also nice would be a way to track comments to threads you *don't* own -- notify me if more comments are added to the post.

Date: 2004-06-10 05:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] stakebait.livejournal.com
*nodsnodsnods* That would be lovely.

Date: 2004-06-10 05:58 pm (UTC)
snippy: Lego me holding book (Default)
From: [personal profile] snippy
Yeah, in fact if LJ were more like Usenet in A LOT OF WAYS, I'd like it better. Grump.

Oh

Date: 2004-06-10 05:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ancientsavvy.livejournal.com
Oh, I could totally go for that feature. Yes sirree...

Date: 2004-06-10 05:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] luna-k.livejournal.com
I just copy/paste the urls into a private post and then read them all later. I also have a seperate "private view" memories catagory called "read later" where I collect posts, then delete them. :)

But yeah, LJ needs to work on the Memories feature, seriously.

Date: 2004-06-10 08:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thepouncer.livejournal.com
I'm a fan of the copy URL to email method. I'm often amused by the number of times I email myself information for later review.
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