Tweak

InsaneJournal

Tweak says, "Twenty percent cooler."

Username: 
Password:    
Remember Me
  • Create Account
  • IJ Login
  • OpenID Login
Search by : 
  • View
    • Create Account
    • IJ Login
    • OpenID Login
  • Journal
    • Post
    • Edit Entries
    • Customize Journal
    • Comment Settings
    • Recent Comments
    • Manage Tags
  • Account
    • Manage Account
    • Viewing Options
    • Manage Profile
    • Manage Notifications
    • Manage Pictures
    • Manage Schools
    • Account Status
  • Friends
    • Edit Friends
    • Edit Custom Groups
    • Friends Filter
    • Nudge Friends
    • Invite
    • Create RSS Feed
  • Asylums
    • Post
    • Asylum Invitations
    • Manage Asylums
    • Create Asylum
  • Site
    • Support
    • Upgrade Account
    • FAQs
    • Search By Location
    • Search By Interest
    • Search Randomly

Calliolanus has grown from man to dragon. ([info]callirhoe) wrote in [info]rp_tutorials,
@ 2011-01-06 10:03:00

Previous Entry  Add to memories!  Tell a Friend!  Next Entry
Entry tags:coding: other

Thread organizer/log history (in the shape of an e-mail inbox!)



This was actually mentioned as an idea a while back in one of the request posts, and I was just playing around with it for my own use. It's handy if you're doing lots of threads/scenes, especially if they aren't in chronological order, to keep things nice and organized. It's also nice to have the mini-icons to denote ratings, warnings, etc (with hover text!), and you can see at a glance what your scening trends are, which is kind of fun. My real example, which I obviously fail at keeping updated, is here, but there's a made-up one under the cut.

jane@doe.net
Status Characters Description Date
  Jane Jane adopts a dog, because men suck 05 Jan 11
  Jane, Jean, Joan Surprise! Jean is Joan's brother; Jane is conflicted 04 Jan 11
  Jane, Jean Jane meets John's best friend, and sparks fly 03 Jan 11
  Jane, John RE: going to Joan's party? 02 Jan 11
  Jane, Joan, June Girls' night out 02 Jan 11
  Jane, John John and Jane's first meeting 01 Jan 11


This is essentially one very basic table, stuck inside another one which forms the border. It's very simple to set up, even with the extra work of uploading the mini-icons, and it's easy as pie to add new rows as you get new threads. I organized mine in reverse chronological order like actual e-mail would be, so when I add new threads I just stick more rows directly beneath the header, but you could do it any way you like.

  1. Header:

  2. Blue rows:

  3. White rows:

  4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 as many times as you need, alternating blue and white rows.

  5. Then just stick in this last bit to close your remaining tags:


The mini-icons I used are modified from here. If you'd rather find or make your own mini-icons, these are all 13x13, and you should probably stay within a pixel or two of that.

Checkboxes
incomplete
complete
Flags
green (G/PG)
yellow (PG-13)
red (R/NC-17)
white
blue
Other
warnings
game-wide
narrative
locked/closed
unlocked/open
 
backdated/past thread
e-mail exchange
star (special)
half a star
no star :(
 
heart
music
plus
question
info


NOTES:
1. Please do upload the little icons to your own webspace. Thank you!
2. Modify to your heart's content. If you have problems with it or find any errors in the coding, please let me know.
3. A link back to [info]rp_tutorials somewhere so other people can find this if they like it would be awesome.
4. If you use it, feel free to comment here with a link and I'll post it up as an example.


(Read comments) - (Post a new comment)

(Deleted post)

[info]callirhoe
2011-01-08 10:44 pm UTC (link)
Oh, awesome! I love the idea of using this as a to-do list. It looks great. :)

(Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)


[info]habituation
2011-01-28 01:17 am UTC (link)
I'm using it as a to-do list too, and it's so helpful. Thank you for putting the code together!

(Reply to this) (Parent)


(Read comments) -


Home | Site Map | Manage Account | TOS | Privacy | Support | FAQs