How do you track nodes/replies of interest?

[perlfan]

Please point me to such a feature if I am totally missing it. But I've often wondered the best way to bookmark or somehow aggregate interesting nodes, answers, etc - I mean other than manually tracking node IDs in scratchpad or in browser bookmarks..what methods do y'all use? Is there a "bookmark" or "save" node feature here that I have somehow missed all these eons?

[soonix]

I collect some of them in my "Personal Nodelet" (possibly has to be enabled via Nodelet Settings or Nodelet Orderer). About the Personal Nodelet even confirms that this was "the original idea of this nodelet".

[eyepopslikeamosquito]

I use my eyepopslikeamosquito home node to manually maintain a list of links on topics of interest to me. I've found these grow and break into sub-lists organically over time, as my interests broaden and change. To illustrate, these old nodes were edited (with an addition in parentheses made to the node title) long after the original reply was made:

• Re: Online Tutorial To Get Started (Learning Perl Links)
• Re: I need perl coding standards (Coding Standards Links)
• Re: Strategies for maintenance of horrible code? (Legacy Code References)
• Re: Sane deprecation policy for a CPAN module? (Software Versioning)
• Re: reduce code (Golfing References)
• Re: Perl Memory problem ... (Memory Tools)
• Re: Security techniques every programmer should know (Security References)

I sometimes find myself updating old nodes with new information ... just the other day I found myself updating this old node with a flurry of imaginative new names for the good old "Baby Cart" secret operator, suggested by the sombrero-wearing sleigh-riding LanX. :)

Perl Monks Libraries

Additionally, I enjoy checking out the links of other like-minded Perl monks, such as:

• Discipulus's library by Discipulus
• Discipulus (lots of links)
• kennethk (lots of links)
• roboticus (lots of links)

[kcott]

G'day perlfan,

If you are looking for some function whereby you flag a thread and get an email (or other notification) whenever that thread changes, that's not something that you "somehow missed all these eons" [or even in the last 18 years since you registered :-) ]: such functionality does not exist on this site.

When you log in, you will get a notification if anyone has replied to a node you wrote. You can also use "Newest Nodes" and "Recently Active Threads".

I log in nearly every day; sometimes more than once: "Newest Nodes" generally suffices for my needs. I use "Super Search" (often with author=kcott) to find older nodes. Occasionally, I bookmark a node if I think it has information that might be useful at some future date.

[Takeshi Kovacs]

You can message yourself.
1. click on "Send private /msg to >author<" beneath the post
2. change the recipient to yourself
3. append your keywords in the message

Inside your Message Inbox you'll be able

• search by keyword
• organize those messages in multiple new folders

If you like this approach you are free to facilitate some steps with free nodelet hacks.

[Takeshi Kovacs]

for the fuzzy "tracking" part of your question

you can use the "private message xml ticker" to programmatically access your Inbox and Archive (tho I can't see an option for more folders)

With that you can realize any tracking logic ...

• be it with Perl from your CLI or cron
• or inside the webpage in JS with a nodelet hack

for more API see What XML generators are currently available on PerlMonks?

[LanX]

If you want to highlight posts/threads in Newest Nodes or RAT View you can add extra CSS ³ to do so.

For instance I'm highlighting myself and some authors I prefer to ignore.°

Furthermore: I'm using a Nodelet Hack in JS to fold all threads in RAT ², so you could exempt those you wanna "track".

NB: AFAIK does RAT have a max time window, hence if you only log in in yearly intervals this approach will fail.

°) "negative" interest ;-)

updates

²) see Free nodelet hack: Auto-Fold threads in RAT for special browsers

³) see RAT Style Settings

[kcott]

G'day Rolf,

[Note: This is not intended as a specific reply to you; it's more general information for universal consumption. This just looked like a good place to post it.]

"... does RAT have a max time window ..."

For "Newest Nodes":

• The default period is 24 hours.
• There is a dropdown list allowing the selection of the last 1 to 14 days.
• For 1 to 7 days, you'll see all new posts under their sections (SoPW, Meditations, etc.) followed by a "Notes" section which lists all replies, to any OPs, in that period.
• For 8 to 14 days, new posts are displayed the same; however, the "Notes" section now just shows: Skipping huge list of notes. So that limits checking on replies older than a week.

See also: "Newest Nodes Settings" for some finer grained control over what is displayed.

[Disclaimer: This information is based on over a decade's worth of personal, empirical evidence. I believe it to be correct but, as I'm not a member of the pmdev cabal, I can't guarantee it. I'm more than happy to be corrected on any of this.]

[LanX]

Hi

I remember a similar discussion when choroba (thankfully) came back from longer (CoViD related) offline-ness and tried to check on older discussions.

> Skipping huge list of notes

IIRC, this skipping depends on the number of nodes, not the time frame.

Well as PMDev I could check the code, but I'm quite busy right now.

update

see also Re: Problems with Newest Nodes (retrospection)

[LanX]

Last but not least, Newest Nodes links to an RSS Feed.

https://perlmonks.org/?node_id=30175;xmlstyle=rss

My experiences with RSS are limited and dated°, but I can think of RSS-readers which might help you tracking certain nodes comfortably outside this webpage.

Plz compare also the other XML tickers in What XML generators are currently available on PerlMonks?

HTH! :)

°) apparently there are also 3rd party webservices offering to message you, YMMV