I’m still trying to figure when to use “read”, “bookmark”, or “like”. If I read a physical book that I liked, which post type would I use? What about an article that I read, what to keep record of, but can’t say I liked?
Same goes for things like “watch” and “listen”. If I want to track everything I watch, and mark everything as “watch”, how do I then mark some as stuff I like as opposed to stuff that’s just “meh”?
I’d like to hear how others use post kind.
@vishae oh, this can be a rabbit hole of data entry if you want to go all in …
@matigo I know, but I can’t help myself, playing with data is part of my day job…
@vishae ah, well, carry on then 😬👍🏼
@matigo lol, I’m guessing you don’t do anything with post kinds then?
@vishae I do quite a bit with them, and they’re clearly defined. That said, if a person spends too much time tracking everything, then they don’t have time to actually do the things they’re trying to track 😉
@matigo that’s fair, which is why I’m interested to see how other people use it.
@vishae to keep my life simpler, I limit myself to using notes, standard posts (e.g. those with titles), likes, and replies.
Note: most of my posts that don’t reference something else (notes can also include photos)
Titled Post: longer form writing
Like: just a big ol’ link to the thing I liked
Reply: link to the source (e.g. what is being replied to) followed by my response
@eli no bookmarks or quotations?
// @vishae
@matigo nope. I fake each with likes and replies. I am not against their use, just didn’t like having so many choices when creating a post on my end.
@eli I like your breakdown, but miss the memo. I am from @c school of use ’em all when it comes to Post Kinds. when
@mrkrndvs @vishae I do kind of like to use ’em all don’t I? I think I’ve even created some additional ones along the way. I suppose the key is to have a good use for them and use them regularly. I also tend to do a lot of self-site searching, so having them delineated well helps in that.
I do however, highly recommend using bookmarklets or other micropub methods to make the data collection easier, otherwise, as @matigo mentioned, you’re killing an awful lot of time.
@eli you are about a year ahead of me. I am still trying to wrap around things like, webmentions, h-cards and indieweb related things
@klandwehr slow and steady 100% wins the race! Let me know if I can (try) to lend a hand.
@c I also plan to do a lot of searches on my own site, so I agree that using the right post kind would really help me with this.
As for using bookmarklets, I have one in Safari when I’m on the Mac, but on iOS I use this Workflow workflow
// @eli @matigo @mrkrndvs