Organization
“But Dan,” I hear some of you saying, “if you only update on Mondays, how am I supposed to remember to check back every week?”
There are a lot of web comics that I keep up with that have very odd publishing schedules. Some publish one day a week, some publish Tuesdays and Thursdays, some publish Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Some publish completely randomly. I use Firefox to manage it all.
Internet Explorer probably does this too, but a.) I’m on a Mac and b.) even if I wasn’t, there aren’t enough Wild Berry Skittles on the planet to bribe me to use Internet Explorer.
Yeah, I like Wild Berry Skittles. A lot.
In Firefox, I have a folder of bookmarks for each day of the week plus one called Daily. Each morning, I open the day’s folder and check the comics, news and other items that interest me. The folder goes up on the Bookmarks toolbar for easy access, thusly:
- Click Bookmarks -> Organize Bookmarks or press Shift-Cmd-B (Shift-Ctrl-B on PC). Yeah, I write instructions from a Mac perspective. After 15 years of the other way around, it’s payback time.
- Click the Bookmarks Toolbar entry on the left to select it. That’s where the folders are going.
- Right click and choose New Folder or go up to the gear icon, click it and choose New Folder.
- Create a folder called Days – or whatever suits you – that will contain the folders for each day of the week.
- Click that new folder to select, then repeat step three for each day of the week and one called Daily.
- Start populating each folder with bookmarks.
That’s all there is to it. Organization, FTW.