Yes, indeed: if you look over there on the right, you will see a lovely label cloud.
~~Sigh.~~
I don't even want to think about the hours I spent making this happen. See, back when I was using labels, I created tons of them. Dozens. Maybe over 100. I micro-labeled everything, multi-labeled it. Every post had every label I could possibly think of, anything it might eventually need.
Kind of like your kid going off to camp the first time, with two sets of everything, just in case.
The reason I never labeled anything any more was because I didn't even know where to start. I'd look at all the possibilities and just give up. So I went in thinking I could just delete a bunch of the labels in one fell swoop. But no. Oh, no. No, no, no. You can't do that. At least not in any way I've found. So what I had to do was go into each post with labels and remove the ones that occurred only once or twice. Like, oh, "Abingdon," appearing once. "Blood," ditto. Lots more. One. At. A. Time.
It took hours. I groused a LOT. But it's done, and I'm going to try to keep up with it this time. I don't know how--I still want to weed out some more of them. I'd be happy if there were 13. That's a good number. One for "wardrobe," one for "stitching," one for "sewing" (those are three distinct things to me.) Also:
~~podcasts
~~rants
~~artists
~~art
~~road trips
~~art retreats
What else? What are the most useful labels? And the broadest categories that will work and still be useful? Sheesh. This is taking up WAY more space in my head than I want to give it. I hate stuff like this. I have other things to think about--so many, many other things, a whole long list of things. Subdivided, of course.
This post, for instance, isn't going to get any labels. It's not the kind of posts anyone would ever hunt for ever again, so why bother? Lots of posts will probably be like that.
It makes me tired trying to figure it out. I'm way more the micro-label-brained type, and I'd normally have about 5,000 labels and an automatic generator kind of thing.
But, anyway: there they are. Now I'm going to go try to finish this book for which I have to make a video tomorrow.
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8 comments:
oh, you have to have one for cats and critters! LOL! How else will we follow the lives of your furkids?
edie
cat voyeur
well, disregard me! I should have followed the link to the site first instead of reading it in Google reader.
Just consider my brains as cooked; it hit 101 with a heat index of 112 here today and I am apparently living in a steam canner. (Anyone remember steam canning in an enamel pot before pressure cookers came along?
edie
who still likes to watch other people's cats
well, having read your recent posts here and over on the creativity site, how about:
- creativity
- time management (that one incorporates those fantastic posts you did on finding time in your day, too much stuff, etc)
as one of your regular readers, i would like to thank you for taking time to create labels for your posts. i appreciate being able to access posts related to a topic i might find particular interesting and want to come back to. i do this on a lot of blogs, like Roz's posts on journaling and IFJM, or Daisy Yellow's posts on ICAD (index card a day) or art journaling prompts. it's the blog equivalent of the old library card system, lol ;)
You could have a label "ranting" ....that would cover an assortment of posts.
Never mind, you already have "rant" as a label.
time for bed.
Oh jeesh, I am never mentioning labels again. That is a promise. Whatever you do is fine with me, just don't ban me from your blog.
There actually is a way to manage the labels for multiple posts in the post editor.
Give me a shout and I can walk you thru it if you're interested. Email is micaelchadwick at gmail.
Mine got messy like that too and I really had to get the broom out... And no, not to fly away on it!
I've been tempted more than once to go through my old posts to clean up the labeling. I think you've just convinced me not to bother!
BTW, this weekend I'm sewing the blocks together for a child's quilt. A very very busy, visually, quilt.
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