Yeah, so I put a bunch of fics on the FFN bookmark thing and now it's gone. Two questions:

1) How do I find them again? D:
2) What's the easiest way (without bookmarking them in your browser...I've been through that phase, and I'm still trying to clean up from it. >.<) to save a bookmark list like that to read later? Note: I don't want to download the fics...If I did I wouldn't have had to ask. Graffer is super sexy awesome for shit like that.

 

Don't they work using cookies? If so, it's more likely to be a problem on your end. They've never disappeared for me.

But if you want a more permanent digital solution to bookmarking problems, why not just copy all the urls you want into a .txt file? That would reduce clutter in-browser, and would be pretty easy to navigate provided you labeled them.

 

I just read as much of a fic as there is and then wait for mail alerts. (Unread mail alert = unread chapter)

 

Well, you could always create another FF.net account and favourite the fics you want to read on it.

 

I use a firefox add-on called toomanytabs. It's essentially an extra tab bar(s) that you can show/hide at will, meanwhile the 'tabs' takes up no memory due to them being handled by firefox as bookmarks instead of active tabs.

When I'm half-way through a story and want to save it for later, I simply drag the tab onto the bar and let it sit. It works well for me because in addition to it marking the chapter you're reading and the position in said chapter, the contents of the bar is kept in your bookmarks allowing you to use a bookmark sync add-on (Xmarks for instance) to back up and/or transfer your bookmarks to other computers.

I have the bar set to have like 8 rows with about 10 on each. That lets me 'bookmark' about 80 fics at a time and given that the bars hide, I have no clutter.

I was going to post a pic of how it looks, but the attachment settings are too stringent for this.

-PinstripedPajamas


EDIT:

There we go.

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I tend to keep 50/80+ tabs up at a time. Why did I not know about this sooner? D:

 

Its okay, I was the same until I stumbled across it.

 

It's not that the stories disappeared from the bookmark thing, it's that the bookmark thing disappeared from their site. I guess I could have worded my problem better.

I've used the text file method before, and I'm pretty sure I still have twenty fics saved in one. D:

These fics were complete...No suck luck there.

I don't use Firefox, I use Chrome. D: (Read here why I WON'T use Firefox either...)

I'm half-tempted to just program one myself and put it on the web somewhere... >.>

 

Whoa, that'll come in handy. Also;

Jesus Birdfuck, that's a fuckton of tabs.

 

While on the subject of tab management, I really like Tree Style Tab (coupled with Multiple Tab Handler, by the same extension author). It's so much more convenient than dealing with a normal tab bar when you have lots of tabs open.

 

I prefer multiple rows over a tree. TabKit provides that.

 

My tabs usually only get away from me when I get caught in a TvTropes spiral.

For the ff.net thing, I just use the favorites list. If I start a new story and have to stop reading before I get to the most recent update, I'll make a browser bookmark, and delete it after I've come back to it.

 

I blame my ADD. I start a story (or just add it to the queue), get bored of it and start another. Old story gets put on the tab list and is promptly forgotten about. Then I get bored of the new story.

Rinse and repeat. 6 months later I have 80ish tabs saved, and that's definitely not the worst it's ever been.

It's a vicious circle.

-PinstripedPajamas