Day 10: Diigo for note-taking

So I've realized how nicely Diigo is going to work as a note-taking tool: if I link to individual stories, I can then use Diigo as my prompt for where I need to read and take notes. For example, I just started loading up Elsie Clews Parsons' South Sea Island tales, and I picked out Tiger's Wife to write a summary:

Useful now... and useful later. It's not the ultimate system I want to have where I can have a two-part summary, plus notes, etc., but as a way to get started, this will be perfect. It's easy to accumulate heaps of stories (I already have over 350 tales!)... writing summaries takes more time, but that is what summer is for. A summer of summaries!

Day 8: 200 stories and counting

I am very pleased with how the initial Diigo-Inoreader experience is going so far! I did most of the Brer Rabbit stories and all of Jacobs' Aesop, so that gives me well over 200 stories so far... and that is just over the weekend.

For some reason the RSS in the sidebar is not updating properly, but that's okay: the RSS-driven pages I built are updating, so I know the feeds are working; it's just something hinky in the Blogger sidebar widget, which doesn't surprise me. When I set up a WordPress blog to play with this summer, I'll give it a try then.

Obviously this is not a long-term solution, but I have a nice clean start for doing my bibliography, and I think Diigo is the right tool for doing that... who knows what new kinds of Diigo features I might even find useful. Maybe I can use the outlines to build tables-of-contents for books for example. I will give that a try next weekend! :-)

Day 7. Let there be RSS!

So, school is not quite over yet... but I couldn't wait: I set up a totally new Inoreader account and a totally new Diigo account to create my new story spaces! The Diigo space is for browsing, and the Inoreader is to run the Diigo RSS, plus whatever other Tale Spinner blogs or RSS I come up with later.

I've started adding stories from two projects: Brer Rabbit and Aesop. Those are two existing projects, and I've got a couple thousand blog posts for those projects alone.

Across the top of this blog, I've set up some RSS feeds embedded as HTML clippings in blog pages.

I've also got some RSS running in the sidebar of this blog.

Yay for Inoreader and RSS!