Mark a post of interest

[kelly]

Lately there have been several posts that I'd like to 'bookmark' or mark in some manner. Is there a way to do this?

[Seth]

For IE, just right click on a blank spot in the thread and choose "Add to favorites".

Firefox should be similar.

[kelly]

Well - that's not quite what I'm looking to do. I'm looking for something in VBulletin that does it.

This is because I check out the BBS from 2 places: work and home. If I see something of interest when at work, I'd like to be able to mark it so when I come home, I will be alerted that there was something that interested me earlier. Kinda like Flagging an email in Outlook.

-td

[Smokey]

You can "Subscribe" to any thread. When you open a thread, open the Thread Tools menu near the top and it has an option to subscribe to it.

[kelly]

Thanks - maybe that's as close as we're gonna get. I haven't used it because I really don't want any more email, but I'll give it a try.

-td

[kelly]

OK - I see that you can subscribe with the option to not receive email. That's much better. I'd rather mark individual posts, but an entire thread is OK.

I wanted to have ready for reference some of the specific post that have appeared here. Most recently, the one by Dan on networking. I also remember some by Pete and others that I thought I'd like to keep around.

-td

[PeteF]

OK - I see that you can subscribe with the option to not receive email. That's much better. I'd rather mark individual posts, but an entire thread is OK.


td,
The best way I found was to capture the text of an interesting topic
the first time I read it. I copy it to a plain text file on my local PC.
I keep each intersting topic in a separate file with a filename that is
very descriptive such that you can easily find it at a future date.
I have several folders as follows:

\Computer
\Windows
\Win98_ME
\WinXP

Then I wrote a DOS bach file that I run to copy all those files
to my mini Flash Drive that I can take with me.

---pete---

[kelly]

Pete - That's similar to what I do. I keep some files on the laptop that I carry with me. I keep a lot of stuff in my gmail account. I subscribe to Tech Republic, PC World and some others with that account. Addtionally, when I find something of interest, I copy/paste to an email to that account. Pretty much I consider it my on-line file cabinet that I can access anywhere with an Internet connection.

-td

[PeteF]

Pete - That's similar to what I do. I keep some files on the laptop that I carry with me. I keep a lot of stuff in my gmail account. I subscribe to Tech Republic, PC World and some others with that account. Addtionally, when I find something of interest, I copy/paste to an email to that account. Pretty much I consider it my on-line file cabinet that I can access anywhere with an Internet connection.

-td

td, do you have a website?
I was just thinking that I could create a secret folder on my website
that only I knew about and and place all the text files there. This
would be a good aproach if I wrote a short program that would
FTP my website and copy the files to that folder all automatically
by clicking an Icon on the desktop or by having the program run
automaticaly on a daily basis.

---pete---

[Terry Hanushek]

Tony / Pete

I have at times in the past used the same technique of saving interesting, informative articles on my own computer. Unfortunately, I have never been diligent about maintaining my personal archive.

On our phpBB version we had a separate forum named Best of. It was a limited access forum which was used to retain the kind of article that Tony mentioned. I'll discuss this with 'management' to see if we can revive this feature.

Terry

[kelly]

Pete,

Thanks for your suggestion. I do have a web site, but haven't used it yet for what you describe. I'd like to put links and some articles (like the ones you've been writing) on it at some point, but I'm a bit web-challanged. I had a pretty good web site in 1999, but things have changed and I haven't kept up with web design. Well, not only have things changed since 1999, but I don't have the time to learn and keep up with it. I ended up having someone do my site for me.

What's good about gmail, is that I don't have to post anything to it; they come automatically. I only need to go in and see what's there and delete unneeded articles.

[dbarrow]

Kelly, if you are good with web work...
One of our 'intents' with the site is to 'distill' some of the better threads into overall tutorials or articles as a Guide.

These Articles, after proper editing and re-working, would be made into individual web pages and linked off the Main Menu. We have plenty of space on the server to add additional pages.

The purpose is two fold...
Great articles get lost in the traffic .... "I know I saw a post about that but can't remember which forum"
Search engines will pick up the individual pages faster than the forum giving us more exposure.

If you want to work on this, please dive right in as it is a needed 'chore' we have not gotten around to.
As you can see, over time, we accumulate a lot of useful information that would serve well as reference material.
Unfortunately, it tends to get diluted as threads run on and start to wander off topic. Many of them would be great articles if properly condensed and edited down.

[kern]

Kelly, if you are good with web work...
One of our 'intents' with the site is to 'distill' some of the better threads into overall tutorials or articles as a Guide.

These Articles, after proper editing and re-working, would be made into individual web pages and linked off the Main Menu. We have plenty of space on the server to add additional pages.

The purpose is two fold...
Great articles get lost in the traffic .... "I know I saw a post about that but can't remember which forum"
Search engines will pick up the individual pages faster than the forum giving us more exposure.


Wasnt that the reason for the "tweaks, tips, hacks & mods" forum?

[kelly]

I thought that was the reason for 'Tweeks'. However, being a thread, it takes a while, as DB said, to 'distill' to get to the acutal Tweek. I like having the 'Tweek' thread and distilling some of the threads down to a single page for each tweek. Look at the Moving Swap File thread - 3 page long discussion. On the other hand, some of the posts don't contain response/discussion. Something like that could be a page by itself.

Let's continue this discussion.

-td

[PeteF]

I have at times in the past used the same technique of saving interesting, informative articles on my own computer. Unfortunately, I have never been diligent about maintaining my personal archive.

On our phpBB version we had a separate forum named Best of. It was a limited access forum which was used to retain the kind of article that Tony mentioned. I'll discuss this with 'management' to see if we can revive this feature.

Terry, that would be great to revive the old archives, especially for
drawing in new members who find the forum as a result of Googling
and finding information in those archives. However, I'll continue to
capture and store my own personal archive because so much has
been lost in the past, here and also on RBL's Forum.

As George Bush says...
Fool me once, shame on.......shame on you....
....ya can fool me, but can't get fooled again.

:D :D :D

---pete---

[dbarrow]

If I recall right from my readings on search engine crawlers,
single pages are much more likely to get picked up by topic and the links to them from the main page are important as well.

While some of these threads eventually end up with great advice, they get long of tooth with a lot of dead air in between relevant replies. The idea of editing them down into an appropriate article has long been a standing goal never acomplished.

[PeteF]

As you can see, over time, we accumulate a lot of useful information that would serve well as reference material.
Unfortunately, it tends to get diluted as threads run on and start to wander off topic. Many of them would be great articles if properly condensed and edited down.

Glad you brought this up. :)
Lately I'm seeing various members trying to develop a thread on a particular
topic only to have that topic hijacked by others who participate in the
thread and get off topic.

I do appreciate the recent posting of KH Forum Rules that discourage
hijacking someone else's topic, but I realize it's not practical to expect
such close control that a thread will not go off topic. Terry, I think you
are on the right track with the idea of editing threads and posting
to a webpage. If we open a topic and develop it in a thread, the person
who originated that thread could be the first person in line to be resonsible
for turning that thread into a polished article to be published on a KH
webpage.

---pete---