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sophia_sol) wrote2025-06-04 12:06 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2025-06-04 12:06 pm
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triumphant return
Since my last non-fic-related update here, there has been.....a lot. A lot going on!
And between all that, it's been harder for me to keep up with dw, which is something that I find I'm only really able to do well when I'm doing well. And then I was SO behind that I was just like.....how do I even come back??
But! Maybe I just need to give myself amnesty. I haven't been keeping up with my dw reading page since early april and that's just gonna be what it's gonna be, and I will be reinvesting myself as of NOW.
And! I am doing a ridic thing to try to do better at handling my dw reading list, so that it isn't so hard for me to keep on top of! See, I really find it easier to keep up with long-form content if I don't feel like I have to commit to reading all posts no matter the length at the time when they're posted, and with dw if like to see what the latest posts are but want to be able to temporarily skip the longer posts when you're going through your reading page, then it's hard to come back later and find them again in the depths of previous pages. So I wanted to be able to add all the journals I follow to my RSS reader. It is technically possible to add someone's journal directly to an RSS reader, but you only see their public posts that way....so now, for ppl I follow, I have subscribed to get emails every time they post, and then (and this is the ridic work-around bit) I have used the newsblur function for adding e-newsletters to rss, to put those emailed post notifications into my RSS feed!
The emails just tell you the post title and tags and author, and don't contain the full text of the post, but I still really think this is a huge step in the right direction for me! RSS is how I am able to keep up with all the tumblrs I follow, and that has been very successful for me for years, so I think the experience will translate to these dw emails-to-rss. I'm very excited for this revolution in my dw experience.
Fingers crossed!
- Trialling a new medication that sapped my energy for doing much other than being anxious for two months straight
- Started a project on doing a bunch of repainting walls and replacing baseboards which spiralled as projects always do and has been taking over so much of my spare time
- Bird migration season, which means any spare time DOES actually need to go towards looking at birds
- Redacted for reasons of not providing too much personally-identifiable information on the public internet, but some other stuff that's also been really time consuming
And between all that, it's been harder for me to keep up with dw, which is something that I find I'm only really able to do well when I'm doing well. And then I was SO behind that I was just like.....how do I even come back??
But! Maybe I just need to give myself amnesty. I haven't been keeping up with my dw reading page since early april and that's just gonna be what it's gonna be, and I will be reinvesting myself as of NOW.
And! I am doing a ridic thing to try to do better at handling my dw reading list, so that it isn't so hard for me to keep on top of! See, I really find it easier to keep up with long-form content if I don't feel like I have to commit to reading all posts no matter the length at the time when they're posted, and with dw if like to see what the latest posts are but want to be able to temporarily skip the longer posts when you're going through your reading page, then it's hard to come back later and find them again in the depths of previous pages. So I wanted to be able to add all the journals I follow to my RSS reader. It is technically possible to add someone's journal directly to an RSS reader, but you only see their public posts that way....so now, for ppl I follow, I have subscribed to get emails every time they post, and then (and this is the ridic work-around bit) I have used the newsblur function for adding e-newsletters to rss, to put those emailed post notifications into my RSS feed!
The emails just tell you the post title and tags and author, and don't contain the full text of the post, but I still really think this is a huge step in the right direction for me! RSS is how I am able to keep up with all the tumblrs I follow, and that has been very successful for me for years, so I think the experience will translate to these dw emails-to-rss. I'm very excited for this revolution in my dw experience.
Fingers crossed!
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Yes! Amnesty! I support this!
I love the innovation of your email-to-RSS hack and eagerly await hearing how it works for you :)
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I hope your medication issue has been sorted out; that sounds really rough.
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Trialling a new medication that sapped my energy for doing much other than being anxious for two months straight
Oof! So glad to see in the comments that you're free of this now!!
I love your hack! It's much better than my method of "open things in tabs and never quite get to them." I currently have five over-stuffed Firefox windows open, and this is no way to live. /o\
*waves* May your bird-migration season be full of exciting and delightful sightings. <3
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Okay, now I have to ask: what is your RSS reader, and how does newsblur work? (If you don't mind saying. Or if you've already said, could you link me?)
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the way you add newsletters (or any emails tbh) is you go to your email service and set up a filtering rule for the kinds of emails you want to put into your newsblur rss reader, and you set that rule to forward all those emails to a specific email address that newsblur provides you with. and all the emails that get forwarded to that special email address show up in your newsblur just like any rss would! it's very cool.
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Ooh, thank you! Hmm... I suppose there's no way to put my existing Dreamwidth tabs into it?
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*nodnod* Thanks so much, anyway. :-)
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