One of the weaknesses of many blogs, including my own, is the difficulty of finding old, useful articles. There are a few ways to find articles written previously, such as the Archives, the categories and the tags. But to be honest, a lot of the stuff I write is only relevant (at best) at the time of publishing. And even I have difficulty finding my useful posts again.
There are several possible solutions, e.g. I could tag pages within delicious as curiousprogrammer/useful. For the moment, I’ve decided to keep a blog highlights page, and list the posts which are useful for me. Later on I might try a more comprehensive index.
When I finally get off of my ass and start blogging, my plan is to come up with a tag (I’m thinking something like “this-is-a-post-so-you-remember-how-to-do-something-dummy”) that allows me to quickly find the wheat among the chaff. Most likely, I’ll put a page on the blog to hold a list of links to “remember this” tagged items, so I’m not sure if I’ll make that tag visible to the general public, but I think it’s the easiest way to handle administering the list (because I’m a lazy bastard).
Hi Josh,
That’s a great idea although the tag might be a bit long
Maybe I’ll go over my past posts and retrospectively tag them (something like cp-useful perhaps?)