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It strikes me that I'm not the only one with this problem. I frequently get very busy an don't have time to do the reading that I would like to. When I do go back to the list, the stories that I had wanted to read are no longer on the front page and I have forgotten about them.
Would it be possible to have something like Amazon's wish list, so that one could tag stories to be read, and easily come back to them later? Could it even optionally pop up when one logged on?
Just a thought.
Liz
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I rather like that....
...because goodness knows, I've found myself in the middle of one story only to find two or three others I like every bit as much. Unfortunately, I can no longer find the original story I was looking at by then. I have to keep as many as four tabs open in my Firefox browser to follow them, and it would be so much easier your way.
Livin' A Ragtime Life,
Rachel
How about a "follow" option?
How about a follow option that puts a message in your PM in box to tell you when the next installment of a story that you're reading is posted?
Hugs
Patricia
Happiness is being all dressed up and HAVING some place to go.
Semper in femineo gerunt
Have you tried...
Have you tried using the 'bookmark++' link at the bottom of the story?
Any story you click that link for will be saved for later. And you can access those bookmarks from the 'My bookmarks' link in the sidebar.
Have delightfully devious day,
++ Bookmarks
That's just brilliant! I didn't know it was there,
Multiple windows open doesn't work for me as I shut down the computer every night.
As my spouse is hostile to Liz and her activities, it would be unwise to have a home page that advertised them.
I like the RSS feed idea and want to explore that in the future.
As for bookmarks, there 1835 just in my bookmark bar in Safari, more than 10K overall. some one of these days, I'm going to take a weekend and organize and prune them. I'll bet 30% are dead. Some go back 25 years. I'm just interested in too many things. I've been accused of being a renaissance man. I wish someone would speak of me as a renaissance woman!
So, the ++bookmark feature is brilliant, and I'm a F****ing idiot for not RingTFM, as it were. It sounds like just what Rachel wants as well. I've already got nine items in my ++Bookmarks.
Love to all of you and many thanks to Erin and the crew for anticipating my every wish.
Liz
My home Firefox has a utility
My home Firefox has a utility for scanning all of my bookmarks and listing off bad, redirected, and good links. (I'm not there, so I can't look it up right now)
You might want to install firefox, export the bookmarks, run the utility, then export back to Safari. (I know it's a workaround, but if you think you have that many dead links, it's faster than by hand)
I'll get a life when it's proven and substantiated to be better than what I'm currently experiencing.
Add to Favorites
Note also the Add to Favorites button near the ++Bookmark button. Favorites are public, bookmarks are private by default. I think, or it's the other way around. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Bookmarks and favorites
Two ways already to do what you want, one is private and the other is public. And you can use your browser to save any BCTS screen as a home page. :)
Hugs
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Why not just
Open the story page in a new window, then minimise it for later reading? I generally have anywhere from 8 to 20-30 windows open and minimised, so I can keep up with my reading at my leisure without even having to be logged in or even online.
Huggles and Happy Holidays,
Catherine Linda Michel
As a T-woman, I do have a Y chromosome... it's just in cursive, pink script.
Tabs, tabs, and (you've guessed it) yet more tabs.
I tend to have numerous tabs open at different BCTS pages - usually my 'main' group consists of stories I'm actively reading, but if I've been away a few days (so ending up with a lot of catching up), I put all the 'pending' stories into their own tab group to gradually catch up on over the following week or two. If I was more organised, I'd probably use the site's internal bookmark or favourite features on the title pages for the stories I'm reading to provide another handy reference.
As the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body, then only left-handers are in their right mind!
Liz, iif you have a lot of
stories you want to read, copy the name and address in top bar over into a personel message to yourself.
May Your Light Forever Shine
RSS feed reader
I've used a RSS feed reader for a while but my favorite was Google's which they said they were discontinuing. I have not replaced it yet so I don't have a suggestion on specifics on which to try.
Jo Dora Webster
Some suggestions
Well, you can always bookmark them in your browser. There's a plugin for Firefox that is called something like read-it-later or some such thing that can all that handling of what you've read for you. A good session manager like that built into Opera can not only save pages but also things like page local text size switches and scroll position if that's an approach you'd like.
I personally have a continually growing set of story tabs in my reading browser (and I switch which one that is between primarily Opera, Firefox and Chrome often, occasionally Safari for Windows) which I then save down either as bookmarks or a session save depending on browser when it's grown unruly and start from scratch. That way I never truly lose them.
If I really want to read the story and if I'm not sure one it's continued availability such as Nancy Cole's stories or the like that have a tendency to suddenly disappear with no warning, I usually save them down locally. (Opera and Safari have the superior native formats for this if you ask me, or you can use a program entirely made for that purpose. Not optimal for me because I switch browsers so often, but a more stable browser usage and it's fine.)