Private community for storing drafts, templates and symbols

[g_uava]

Sharing my method for saving unpublished posts on Dreamwidth since I haven't seen it mentioned before:

It's basically just creating a community for yourself with all posts set to private (here's how). That'll serve as a repository for posts only visible to you that you can organise with tags exclusive to the community. I also use my private community to store post templates with code and put in a sticky post a bunch of often used emoji along with other symbols to copy and paste when I'm on my PC.

Comments

[sparklecat]

oh em gee, i came to this community specifically to find what other peoples solutions to draft posts are (i am a habitual "write a sentence or two and come back later" type of person) and here you are, the answer to my woes!

doing this!

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

That's one good solution.

Another is programs like Semagic that are post writers with options for saving, editing, sending, etc.

[g_uava]

My cross-post on fictional_fans has more ideas and solutions for storing drafts on Dreamwidth! As some mentioned over there, it's possible to store public posts and drafts set to private on your main Dreamwidth blog, but I've found it easier to locate drafts and templates in a private comm.

Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

Might you be willing to write a followup post to cover those alternate methods? It's good to have options.

Re: Thoughts

[g_uava]

I'll get to it as soon as I can!

Re: Thoughts

[ysabetwordsmith]

Thank you so much! I appreciate you pitching in here.