Titles and formatting

[trascendenza]

So, I think about titles and formatting A LOT. I really like accounts that have consistent titling practices that make it easy to scan the bookmarks, but of course, since I want them to look *just right*, I'm constantly changing mine and unable to decide what looks best

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[catechism]

I love that we are all up at all hours of the night posting in this community.

I think you know the answer by now, but right now, my titles look like this:
Title by author (pairing; rating) [wordcount]

I don't say "fic" in the title because I tag for it, and right now I don't list fandom, either, because it's often clear enough from the pairing which fandom I'm talking about. Or, it was, but now that my number of fandoms is growing, it may not be anymore.

So, I think if I were going to change my system, I would change it to:
FIC [Fandom]: Title by author [pairing | rating | wc]

Because I like brackets and pipes. That would be pretty easy and consistent, and applicable to other things (art, essays, picspams, icons, etc.).

[trascendenza]

I couldn't resist! It's nice not to be laughed at, for a change, as generally happens when I post this stuff to my journal. *g* I've been trying to figure out the best way to title things at this account http://del.icio.us/haikuathon for the longest time--like, are the brackets worth putting in? Because I don't think I can get people to post the haiku comments with brackets in them, so likely the bookmarkers would have to do it by hand unless there was a script that would do it, and that seems like an extra pain when it's already so intensive to bookmark hundreds of tiny commentfics

[catechism]

internet stuffs = "web" ?

Though I do see why you'd want everything to be roughly the same length if you were using allcaps. What about: FIC, ART, META, PICS, CAPS, VIDS, REF, WEB, TECH... ? DOCS? Tools you could subdivide, into like APPS or whatever. And I think for how-tos, it would really depend. It wouldn't be useless if you could keep it to honest-to-god tutorials, I don't think, but sometimes that's hard to do. So, probably docs for just straight-up documentation, and howto for shit with step-by-step instructions and screenshots and stuff.

But yeah. Categories ARE hard. I keep fucking with my fandom bundles for this exact reason. Like, TeenDramas. Do I put movies in there, like Breakfast Club and Mean Girls? Or leave it for TV shows and put the movies in a Small Movies fandoms bundle? Blargh, I don't know. And what the hell is a 'Prime Time Soap,' anyway?

[trascendenza]

WEB! You are brilliant

[trascendenza]

I used to think fandom was redundant since I tagged for it, but the more I started using del.icio.us to find fic the more I found I liked informative headers, because people's tagging systems are so variable (and often just not written in a way that immediately makes sense to me) that scanning headers is more often how I pick out useful links now. And I tend to skim faster over links that are only one word, if I'm looking for something specific or if I'm too lazy to squint at tags and determine.

I can't wait until we have longer description boxes! Then, of course, it'll be a matter of deciding what goes in there vs. what goes in the title, but that's an obsession for another day.

I waffle about ratings. I kind of want to implement some sort of binary system for mine and put that in the header so it's useful to me.

[simons_flower]

Personally, I only mark for one fandom, so I don't mark for fandom. Does that make sense?

My method is:
FIC: author "title"
then I put the summary in the description. For tags, I label
hp.fanfic fic.recs main.character1 main.character2 author main/pairing
and I use the "FIC" preface since I use my del.icio.us account for fandom and personal. It's an easy way for me to see fic and art (which I label ART).

I haven't listed rating or word count, though after seeing everyone else's, I might sort through them all.

[trascendenza]

Perfect sense! That's one of the huge benefits of specializing, I think. I know for some of the archives I do I don't mark for fandom, either, because, y'know, lots o' redundancy.

(Of course, for archives, it would make more sense to put in fandom because archives are intended for wide-community usefulness, and for someone searching del.icio.us having that prefix would be good! But you never heard me say that.)

Does having fandom and personal together go well for you? I'm trying to re-combine my personal and fandom again, wheee.

[simons_flower]

Fandom and personal together works so far -- but it means I rely heavily on my tags and bundles.