Housekeeping

[ailbhe]

I finally gave in and put my LJ friends list in a spreadsheet so that I could sort it into different reading filters. That's that then. I can't seem to take people off my list as much as I want to. In fact, I accidentally added some people today. Filters are the only way I can keep track.

Comments

[sidheag.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain - the LJ system is very hard to manage, because "friend" is just not that simple a concept. I forget whether I said before that I hope you don't mind that I friended you, and that I have no expectation of being friended back: I like to read the public parts of your journal. I hope you don't mind that you get filtered out of some parts of mine despite being my "friend" - I presume you don't, since you probably don't read my journal anyway!

Re: Housekeeping

[pir-anha.livejournal.com]

yeah, filtering saved me (in as far as without it i would have stopped reading LJ altgether).

at first i couldn't make filters for the world of me because i couldn't think of groupings into which people fit well. what little ranking i do internally for people results in huge categories like "friendly acquaintances" (which is pretty much most of my flist) next to tiny ones ("partners" and "best friends").

i ended up making filters based solely on how i know people. they're not equal size, but they fit slightly together conceptually, because those groupings have something in common, even if just a little. but now that i've used them for a while i realize i could have just chopped the whole into several equal parts -- what matters most is to get the size down so i can easily read everyone in any one filter during the same session, since otherwise LJ's lousy sequencer really fucks with things.

so if i have a moment, i'll cruise through one filter, then go back to whatever it is i need to do, come back, cruise through the next filter, and so on. i can now completely stay on top of the entire 200+ list without losing track.