Wishful thinking

Discussion in 'Authors' Hangout' started by Cuchuilain, Sep 2, 2020.

  1. Cuchuilain

    Cuchuilain Guest

    Wouldn't it be handy to have an author's specific page which gives you a dashboard of the stories you've worked on in the past and where you last worked on them.
    I find myself contributing a few chapters to a story, then a day or a week later, remembering the threads I was developing, full of ideas for their continuation, but completely forgotten which story it was that I had worked on. (and I'm not even that prolific an author or too promiscuous with the stories I think) Just a list of links even of where our own contributions were would be nice. I know we get our list of last 5 chapters (extendable), but I'd really like something a bit more comprehensive.
     
    Gatsha, insertnamehere and MidbossMan like this.
  2. gene.sis

    gene.sis CHYOA Guru

    Maybe the My Chapters list (you get there through the triangle dropdown menu) might be helpful.
    If you already added a draft chapter to a story you want to continue working on, you might use the status filter "Not Published" to reduce the number of results.
     
    Cuchuilain likes this.
  3. Cuchuilain

    Cuchuilain Guest

    Yeah - just me being lazy I guess, but that takes me to a list of my 250 or so chapters in 10 chapter pages. It takes me ages to find what I was working on. It would be handy just to have a list of here are all the stories I have worked on, and even more wishful thinking - here is where i left off last time I was there.
    Anyway - I dont want to moan, the setup here is otherwise great, Just a suggestion for anyone who might be planning future developments.
     
    MidbossMan likes this.
  4. insertnamehere

    insertnamehere Really Really Experienced

    My suggestion would be to bookmark the start of each of your threads. The bookmarks page will then function as a sort of 'dashboard' of all your threads.
     
    Cuchuilain, Almax and Gatsha like this.
  5. Cuchuilain

    Cuchuilain Guest

    Thanks - I'll give that a try.
     
    insertnamehere likes this.
  6. Sune's Kiss

    Sune's Kiss Really Experienced

    If only we had a Life Dashboard...
     
    Cuchuilain likes this.
  7. Cuchuilain

    Cuchuilain Guest

    I had an idea. If you just put a chapter together with links to everything you're interested in, you can make that your "Homepage" in your profile and go to that to find everything. Anyway I gave it a go, trawled through my chapters and put it in one. It seems to work. - https://chyoa.com/chapter/Homepage.801765 I'm gona try this way and see how it goes for a while.
     
    Sune's Kiss likes this.