Lost in the Archives

[hrj]

 I was commenting on another journal re: timeline software for authors, and was trying to figure out just what keywords I'd have to use to try to track down the journal entry where I fantasized about my cadillac-version timeline software for plotting novels. (I came up with some elaborate user specs.) Fourteen years of LJ/Dreamwidth entries! And no useful index. Tags don't really work for topics like "writing process" when you want to find something specific.

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[hrj]

I'm very sure that the original post was on LJ, so I've tried searching keywords in my exported archives but haven't found it yet. I tried doing a domain-specific search in Google's advanced search and some experimentation proved that that method is missing a lot of things it should be finding. (Probably due to Google trying to be smarter than I want it to be, or possibly due to DW protecting material from search engines.)

I could reconstruct the concept that was in the post I'm looking for, but that would be more effort than the impulse was worth. On my long-term to-do list is going through DW (which has all my old LJ material) and pulling out and indexing all the posts that I think are worth being able to find again. I'd like to echo all my writing related posts over only my Alpennia blog at some point, just to have it all in a location I control. I haven't been doing regular exports of my DW blog like I did with LJ, but in part that's because I do almost all my substantive blogging at Alpennia.