Salon - - Information saturation?

Ed_L · #1 06-04-2002, 04:21 PM

With the membership growing all the time, and the frequency of good information in the posts has my head in a spin. I see so many things that I want to try each day, but there's no way I can save everything. There's so much info that I seem to forget some of it shortly after reading it. Does anyone else have this problem, or are my senior moments getting more frequent?

Ed

chris h · #2 06-04-2002, 04:45 PM

Just paste any of the choice bits into a big file Ed, saves a lot of detective work later !

Doug Nelson · #3 06-04-2002, 05:02 PM

Bookmarks, m'boy. Bookmarks

Ed_L · #4 06-04-2002, 05:27 PM

One big file would probably reach to California (or maybe London). Bookmarks might only reach Iowa or so. Either way, if you see something strange on I-80, please don't run over it.

Thanks for the tips.

Ed

G. Couch · #5 06-04-2002, 06:35 PM

Well, look at it this way...most sites on the internet suffer from a severe lack of content. This site is just making up for that!

Ed_L · #6 06-04-2002, 08:56 PM

Yeah, you said a mouthful that time.

Ed

jeaniesa · #7 06-04-2002, 11:38 PM

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Originally posted by Ed_L
Either way, if you see something strange on I-80, please don't run over it.

If it makes you feel any better Ed, I'm feeling a little overwhelmed too, but only because I want to try everything all at once. (Patience is not one of my strong points.

) But, I know it's all here when I'm actually ready for it, so for now, I'm focusing on the things I'm most interested in and filing away the other ideas for a later date.

Jeanie

DannyRaphael · #8 06-05-2002, 01:12 AM

Ed... You're not alone.

With the recent activity on the "Photo to Art" forum (of great personal interest to me) + the ongoing valuable threads in other forums, I feel like a kid in a candy store...trying to get a drink out of a fire hose. In some ways it's a nice problem to have.

If you utilize the bookmark suggestion, be sure to give them meaningful names and file them logically or you'll be in the same boat: unable to find your bookmarks! (I hate it when that happens!)

~Danny~

Jakaleena · #9 06-05-2002, 01:17 AM

I often just "drop in for a sec" to check and see what new posts there are... I often find myself still glued to RP 3 hours later trying out some new neato idea someone tossed in here.

I am truly addicted. Is there a 12-step program for this????

BigAl · #10 06-05-2002, 01:23 AM

The "Last 24 hours" link has been consistently around 50 posts since Sunday

. However, this means I don't have time to follow all the tips anymore, let alone the challenges

! I haven't even been into Danny's forum yet. (would like to use the oldman smiley here but, like me, he doesn't work

.)

fugitive · #11 06-05-2002, 01:24 AM

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Originally posted by chris h
Just paste any of the choice bits into a big file Ed, saves a lot of detective work later !

I have a huge collection of txt files in My Document and Graphics but there are so many, it's hard to find things.
greg

Blacknight · #12 06-11-2002, 04:43 PM

Most of the things I see here and copy to text files I open later in a small window and then switch back and forth between it and Photoshop, performing the steps with the actions set to record. Then I save the action with an appropriate name and save it to the actions folder as well as a backup on Zip disk. Always available that way, and then you can do with the text file what you will (I have a folder called "documents" I throw everything like that in).