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Sep. 4th, 2020 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kraitThis week and last I've been working on a fannish project of sorts that's strictly personal, which is tidying up my AO3 Subscriptions and 'Marked for Later' list.
After deleting a lot of completed works, fics that had been orphaned still incomplete, and many works and series that hadn't been updated since 2016 or earlier, authors who haven't posted in a fandom I recognise for years, my Subscription list is now down to 5 pages! I did leave a few probably-abandoned things in there for sentimental reasons, but it's so much more coherent and useful now.
Similarly, I cleared out page after page of things marked for later! Gone are the fics I had actually already read (sometimes I mark for later if I intend to come back and comment), and works that are probably abandoned (I often mark for later if a WIP has an interesting premise but only 1-2 chapters, as an easy way to figure out if it's going to continue and be worth reading), and things I've lost interest in for one reason or another (mostly long-running series or WIPs that had lost focus and turned into endless non-plot, or fics that now include a pairing I dislike). I'm left with a much more reasonable 7 pages of marked works, and I'm trying to read at least once a week in order to keep whittling it down.
My next project will be another round of bookmark edits, I suspect.
So.... How many subscriptions or marked-for-later works do you have?
After deleting a lot of completed works, fics that had been orphaned still incomplete, and many works and series that hadn't been updated since 2016 or earlier, authors who haven't posted in a fandom I recognise for years, my Subscription list is now down to 5 pages! I did leave a few probably-abandoned things in there for sentimental reasons, but it's so much more coherent and useful now.
Similarly, I cleared out page after page of things marked for later! Gone are the fics I had actually already read (sometimes I mark for later if I intend to come back and comment), and works that are probably abandoned (I often mark for later if a WIP has an interesting premise but only 1-2 chapters, as an easy way to figure out if it's going to continue and be worth reading), and things I've lost interest in for one reason or another (mostly long-running series or WIPs that had lost focus and turned into endless non-plot, or fics that now include a pairing I dislike). I'm left with a much more reasonable 7 pages of marked works, and I'm trying to read at least once a week in order to keep whittling it down.
My next project will be another round of bookmark edits, I suspect.
So.... How many subscriptions or marked-for-later works do you have?
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Date: 2020-09-06 01:16 am (UTC)I definitely had a lot of abandoned accounts and works (some had even been orphaned!) in the pile. This time I locked my sentimental side in a closet and let the ruthless side prune them down. :D The number fics started in 2012 and last updated in 2013/2014 was... significant, and they were an easy place to start in clearing things out.
Once I get these things under control, I'm going to continue working on my bookmarks - a year or so ago (maybe two or three; I'm bad at time estimates!) I got nervous about bookmarks that had been deleted, and decided I should use the Bookmark feature to its fullest by including the title and author of each work along with a brief description. It's already saved my bacon a time or two when a work was subsequently deleted! But I have, uh, 578 bookmarks... and of course, if you're going to note why you bookmarked them, you generally have to read them again as a refresher. :D