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[rivka]

LJ has just implemented tags. And I'm feeling an overpowering urge to go back and catalogue nearly a thousand LJ posts. Think of the usefulness! Think of the organization! Think of the dizzying disorientation caused by re-reading four years' worth of journal entries in rapid succession! Think of the fun of revisiting past traumas in full LJ technicolor!

Somebody, please, stop me.

Comments

[redbird]

The problem is that a chunk of what I'm seeing, looking back, is insufficient context--and if I don't know what I was referring to, tagging is difficult and probably pointless.

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I'm not quite seeing how this would be useful, given that the memories function already exists. Explain?

-J

[minnaleigh.livejournal.com]

I won't speak for rivka but I think it's useful because there are always going to be journal entries that aren't 'memorable' but that I want to find again. For example, it would have been so nice recently to do a tag search for 'books' in order to find a old post about Dean Koontz than for me to try and remember when exactly I read it and troll back through the calendar.

[rivka.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly. It's a way of indexing all my posts, even the mundane ones.

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

journal entries that aren't 'memorable' but that I want to find again

Except that I decide to memory or not memory something based on whether I want to find it again (i.e., if I've ever gone back to look for something, it goes immediately into memories), not based on whether it's "memorable", whatever that means. So what you describe is what I already use the memories function for ... and, in fact, what I had assumed it was *intended* for!

-J

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

And the method for assigning posts to a category or categories and reviewing same is much faster and easier.

[therealjae.livejournal.com]

True, that.

-J

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's time for a re-reading of Brer Rabbit?

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Heh. I haven't even bothered updating my journal's style since I first built it. I'm all about the function, not the form...

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

Ahh, but for tags are all about function. I'm with you on the style issue - I don't really care what my journal looks like. But to be able to easily find all my posts on a particular topic - now that's function.

[beaq.livejournal.com]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaugh!

Finally. About 5 years too late.

[riarambles.livejournal.com]

Somehow I imagine that a certain small, red-headed creature might stop you without any of us having to intervene. ;)

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

I am also feeling that same overwhelming urge. I'm figuring I'll start tagging from here on in, and then go backwards and start doing a month at a time, only if I'm, you know, sitting around the house with nothing to do.

Some of the posts that I'd most want to tag are on filters that are identified in the subject line, so that makes doing those ones easy. But I'd like to tag all of my pregnancy-related posts, and that will be a little more challenging...

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

I'm having the same urge. What are the other advantages/disadvantages to changing to S2?

[tammylc.livejournal.com]

Do you have a lot of customizations to your current journal? If not, then I don't think there are any disadvantages to changing to S2. Unless you can't find a style you like, I suppose. I switched last night and it was effortless.

[edschweppe.livejournal.com]

Somebody, please, stop me.
Alex, you're up. :-)

[elusis.livejournal.com]

The way I read the tags info, you can only look at the tags for your past 100 entries. So... that's maybe a month's worth for me. Not real useful. :-/

[rivka.livejournal.com]

I thought it was the last hundred per category, like, "the last hundred book posts." Is it not?

[hobbitbabe.livejournal.com]

Cuz if it was, you could do like "booksjun05", "booksjul05".

[lcohen]

oh i was supposed to *stop* you.

oops.