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Posted by Declan on October 13, 2006, at 0:31:32
How do you all keep track of what you've written and what replies you've had? My memory is OK, but this is a big site and sometimes people respond in places I don't much visit.
Any ideas?
I suppose you can tick that email box thingo above, which I have now done.
Posted by muffled on October 14, 2006, at 1:48:44
In reply to Keeping track, posted by Declan on October 13, 2006, at 0:31:32
> How do you all keep track of what you've written and what replies you've had? My memory is OK, but this is a big site and sometimes people respond in places I don't much visit.
> Any ideas?
> I suppose you can tick that email box thingo above, which I have now done.***Yeah, i find it hard too.
I mostly try and stick to one or two boards or otherwise I get awful lost.
I miss alot of stuff that way too....
I tick that e-mail thing only sometimes or my mailbox gets all cluttered...
Take care,
Muffled
Posted by Jost on October 14, 2006, at 11:31:32
In reply to Re: Keeping track » Declan, posted by muffled on October 14, 2006, at 1:48:44
You could so a search for your name, or the subjects you remember. It's not the most efficient, that I've found so far-- butyou'll come up with lots of \\ (that was me sneezing).
The email thing keeps you informed on current posts-- so it's a good thing to start if you want to make future folders.
Jost
Posted by Meri-Tuuli on October 15, 2006, at 15:07:08
In reply to Keeping track, posted by Declan on October 13, 2006, at 0:31:32
Yeah I have the same problem.
I never bother to check the email box, unless its a thread I started and its somehow important.
But for the threads that I do check the box for, it always surprises me how long a thread is active for -- I only ever to remember to check the most current threads.
This means that potentially there is a whole bunch of posts etc that I haven't seen/haven't responded to.....
Its certainly slightly tricky keeping up! It would be alright if, say, you stuck to one board or something, but I'm scattered around all over the place!
Oh well.
I've thought to bring this up, but never got round to it. Thanks Declan for bringing it up...
Any suggestions about what to do??
Perhaps we could have a checkbox installed that had some kind of filter - for instance, it only emailed when there had been one new post to a thread, but not email for every single post to that thread.... if you see what I mean. So for each thread, there would be only one email/day reminding you to check that thread in that day even if there were a billion posts to it....it would avoid alot of chuttering emails that way. Would that be easy to do I wonder?
Kind regardsMeri
Posted by Declan on October 15, 2006, at 16:03:44
In reply to Re: Keeping track » Declan, posted by Meri-Tuuli on October 15, 2006, at 15:07:08
G'day Merri, I just went to my email box and clicked the link and here I am; easy peasy. I can delete it later.
Posted by Dr. Bob on October 16, 2006, at 11:48:27
In reply to Re: Keeping track » Declan, posted by Meri-Tuuli on October 15, 2006, at 15:07:08
> Perhaps we could have a checkbox installed that had some kind of filter - for instance, it only emailed when there had been one new post to a thread, but not email for every single post to that thread.... if you see what I mean. So for each thread, there would be only one email/day reminding you to check that thread in that day even if there were a billion posts to it....it would avoid alot of chuttering emails that way. Would that be easy to do I wonder?
It could be done, but it would be more complicated. But the subject lines of the emails now include the numbers of the threads, so if you sort them by subject, those about the same thread should end up grouped together, and you can just open one of them for a link to that thread.
Bob
Posted by Jost on October 18, 2006, at 10:35:37
In reply to Re: Keeping track, posted by Jost on October 14, 2006, at 11:31:32
So, maybe I'm a little retarded, but if I wanted to search for posts on a day, eg the day before the day I'm searching, by poster x, does this work:
poster:x200y0z0a?
Cause I just tried that for someone for yesterday, and I know they posted at least once- and I got nothing.
also got nothing for the following:
poster:x2006, poster:x20061016 (day before yesterday)
So I"m wondering, how do I do that--
for any day, month,year, including up to yesterday (or whenever the posts vest for searching),
Jost
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