My system worked... for a while

[simons_flower]

My new system of using different punctuation in front of each "category" (author, artist, pairing, character) worked really well so long as I was tracking one fandom

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[midnightbex]

I've currently got over 100 fandoms in my delicious and this is a problem I had to figure out too. What I ended up doing was using the fandom or abbreviation of the fandom to preface pairings and characters. I don't try to separate anything but the pairing or main character by fandom since delicious allows you to sort by multiple tags at once. Everything else has it's own system, notes are prefaced with *s, word counts with .s, and other things simply with the label of what they are ('author:' or 'fan.artist:' for example). Then I bundle like a mad person. You can check out my delicious for yourself to see how all that works.

Everyone has their own system though, so its more about what works best for you. I'd recommend analyzing how you use delicious to find fics, what you like that others do and what annoys you. It's the best way for figuring out what system you'd like to put in place yourself.

[simons_flower]

Thanks!

It's not so much the searching as the filing that I like having the prefaces, so whatever I decide upon, I'll probably keep those.

[midnightbex]

I definitely agree, filing is the hard part! That's why I started prefacing my pairings with their fandom, it's much easier to sort the bundles that way! Good luck, by the way! Reorganizing is a headache, but you'll be happy about it once you're done. :D

[catechism]

I don't! It would be absolutely crazy. I have (fandom.name) and .maybe.a.rec and assume that if people want recs for a given fandom, they are capable of hitting (fandom.name)+.maybe.a.rec, or clicking the little "+" icon, or whatever. I'm not sure there's enough punctuation in the world for what you're asking... maybe for a few fandoms, but now that you've started down the slippery slope of multifannishness, it's only going to get crazier

[simons_flower]

Yeah, I'm all punctuated now and I'm starting to confuse myself. Punctuation is good, but I've got to streamline it somehow.

Thanks for the input!

[theoret]

I use fandom acronyms in my character tags (e.g. SPN:SamWinchester, SGA:RodneyMcKay, etc), but not in any of my other tags. TBH, I mainly put them in my character tags so I could differentiate between SV:ClarkKent and DCU:ClarkKent. (Sometimes I want to use fandom acronyms in my pairing tags, too, but I haven't yet come up with a solution I like to the crossover pairing problem.)

It's easier for me because I have a purely fannish delicious, so I don't know how much help I'm being, but I imagine that fandom names are easier to remember than randomly assigned punctuation.

(Although it does pain me a little when fandoms don't have acronyms. I feel my tags like Leverage:AlecHardison are a little long.)

[simons_flower]

I understand the non-acronym pain -- on my website, I create subdomains so it's nice when things abbreviate.

Thanks for the input, it helps!

[stepps]

I cannot use punctuation of any kind for my tags. I would get so confused by adding prefaces to things, even just remembering what I have used as a tag for a theme, character, etc all the time is becoming tricky now that I am also falling in with several fandoms (and have always been monofannish previously). Instead I try to tag in a way that those looking at my tags alone, or in their bundles, will understand what the tag is meant for

[murklins]

Sorry to the OP for thread-jacking, but I think maybe americanidol is the best bet for AI? http://delicious.com/tag/americanidol

It is consistently in the most used tags for all the popular AI fic.

[stepps]

thanks for that! Ugh, which now means the longest tag is the most relevant.

[simons_flower]

Someone else has answered for American Idol, so I'll try to answer for Trek.

In my personal del account, I don't care. I tag for me :) For everyone else, most don't demarcate -- meaning it's just startrek. Though I have seen st:xi, startrek:xi, st:reboot, startrek:reboot, most are just startrek.

And, yeah, this will be like the third iteration of my tags. I hate redoing them, though, because it feels like I've failed the previous times.

[jcalanthe]

I track a zillion fandoms, and I just don't prefix. If a character's name is repeated in another fandom, or there's no last name, I put a fandom indicator in parens at the end (so for example, ben(btvs) or amy(bloodandsmoke)).

If there's a character I can't place, it's easy enough to look at the links for that character & see what fandom shows up, & vice versa. Plus then most of the time, my character names will match up with what others are using (we're never going to all agree to use an apotrophe before all Star Trek tags, for example), aside from the parenthetical fandoms and the fact that I tag by full name but not everyone does.

It's true, my character & pairing & fandom bundles are awfully large, but I don't have trouble finding what I'm looking for (at least for fandom links - my tags for everything else could use a lot of work!). my delicious

[simons_flower]

I don't usually use my tags to search for other fic (meaning that they have to agree with what everyone else is using). When I'm curious, I'll click on the number to see who else has the same fic bookmarked, then go look at what else they have bookmarked.

Thanks for the feedback! It does help.

[jcalanthe]

I don't really use my tags to search for other fic, but I understand that other people do that, and given how obsessive about tagging I am, I like to think it's useful to others too! :)

You're quite welcome, glad to help.