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[denise]

I think I've finally figured out one of the questions I need to ask in order to work through the next project bit I need to do:

So, you've loaded the update page and you are about to write an entry. What steps, and in what order, do you do it in?

For instance, for me it's:

1. Pick journal to post to.
2. Write entry.
3. Pick subject.
4. Add tags.
5. Change comment settings if necessary.
6. Pick security level if other than default.
7. Preview, if there's anything more complicated than a few links.
8. Hit post.
9. Immediately view entry to make sure it isn't fucked.

(You'll notice the lack of 'pick icon' or 'add mood/music' -- I never do.)

What's yours?

Comments

[recessional]

Write subject, assuming I'll use one.
Write entry.
Some combination of "pick journal, add tags, change comment settings, pick security" - this has no real order, it's just "the stuff I do to get the entry ready for posting." Editing subject may also go here.
Post.
Hit my friend's page to make sure all cuts and so on worked properly, and then hit the entry to make sure there are no broken tags.

Edit: Picking icon can happen at any point in this process: for me, icons are a secondary visual language (that's why I want as many of them as I can get) and are a kind of alethiometer tag on my journal. So sometimes I come to the journal to pick the icon first and then find the words, and then sometimes I finish everything and then go " . . . huh. What icon is apropos?"

[starlady]

1. Subject line
2. Entry text
3. Hit preview to check and/or toggle to HTML to fix LJ user-name references as necessary
4. Tags or icon
5. Icon or tags, depending on 3
5a. Pick mood if necessary (usually involves picking a mood pic & making up my own emotion)
6. Security level if necessary
7. Journal to post to if other than default
8. Post
9. View entry to double-check formatting

[ct]

1. Pick journal (if posting to a comm, which is rare).
2. Pick security setting if other than default.
3. Write the entry.
4. In the middle of writing the entry, add a subject and change the icon.
5. Finish the entry.
6. Pick tags.
7. Post.
8. View entry if it had HTML or a cut in it, to make sure they're correct.

[thedivinegoat]

Write entry.
Write subject.
Choose Icon
Location, Mood and then tags.

Post.

30 seconds later go back and change journal to community_x I meant to post to.

[janinedog]

1. Pick journal to post to.
2. Write subject.
3. Write entry.
4. Pick tags, mood, and icon (usually in that order, but it varies).
5. Pick security--though sometimes I'll do this as step #1 or #2, particularly if it's a very sensitive entry that I want to make sure I don't post public accidentally.
6. Hit post (previewing is rare, only if there's lots of HTML).
7. Go to my journal and view the entry there, and then the entry directly.

[miss_s_b]

1. Write entry and subject. Sometimes one flows from the other, sometimes the other way around, mostly coding as I go


2. Read through, checking code in particular


3. tag


4. Choose icon


5. add mood/music


6. Pick security level if other than default


7. Remember to check I am posting to the right journal/comm (sometimes I forget this step, with hilarious results)


8. Preview, if there's anything more complicated than a few links


9. Hit post.


10. Immediately view entry to make sure it isn't fucked


11. Edit the inevitable fuckedness


12. Go to LJ and re-f-lock if the post here is public

That's quite complicated, isn't it?

[annotated_em]

1. Write entry
2. Pick filter
3. Pick icon
4. Title
5. Change to comm posting, if applicable
6. Tags
7. Decide on whether to crosspost/not
8. Maybe preview, if the HTML got complicated
9. Double check filters/comm post if necessary
10. Post
11. Either check reading page or delete notification of successful crosspost

[bossymarmalade]

Write entry.
Add tags.
Choose subject/icon (these are interchangeable)
Preview if there's lots of html.
Post.
Check to make sure it's not fucked (on dw and lj).

[stultiloquentia]

Pretty much the same...which reminds me of a tweak I meant to drop in the suggestion box. It'd be nice if I could set things up to always punt me straight to the new entry for the fuckery check, or to my reading page (sometimes what I want to eyeball is my <cut> tag), bypassing the "Post was successful!" page. *wanders off to be a good little DW citizen*

[sara]

Yeah, that would be more efficient for me, too. You should totally go put that in the box. *G*

similar process

[samvara]

1. Pick subject.
2. Pick icon.
3. Write entry.
4. Add tags.
5. Change comment settings if necessary.
6. Pick security level if other than default.
7. Preview, if there's anything more complicated than a few links.
8. Hit post.
9. Immediately view entry to make sure it isn't fucked.

[fox]

1. Subject line.
2. Write entry.
3. Tick crossposting tickyboxes.
4. Change security level if other than wide-open.
5. Add mood.
6. Remember that the icons are all the way at the top, scroll back up, pick icon.
7. Hit post.
8. Immediately view to make sure it isn't fucked, as you say.
8b. Look at LJ to make sure something didn't go awry in crosspost.
9. Remember that I didn't add tags; edit entry to do this, fix typos, etc.

[melannen]

1. Write subject.
2. Write entry.
3. preview entry (repeatedly, if it's of any length at all)
4. Add tags, mood, music, & icon if I feel like it.
5. Change subject if need is decided.
6. Hit post.
7. Immediately go to my reading page to make sure cut tags are working.
8. Click on cut tags to view entry itself.
9. Edit entry to fix the things I invariably messed up.
10. Repeat steps 6-9 * number of times while madly reloading looking for comments.

I almost never pick journal to post to - if I'm posting to a community, I go from the community's info page. And almost never do anything with the security or comments.

(#1 thing I would like in update page: a way to preview the entry with cuts.)

[gorgeousnerd]

#1 thing I would like in update page: a way to preview the entry with cuts.

I second this. I don't usually have problems, but since I crosspost to LJ, I'm always paranoid that I'm going to mess something up.

[such_heights]

For me it's:

1. Write entry.
2. Preview.
3. Add tags.
4. Write subject line.
5. Pick icon.
6. Go into 'manage accounts' if I'm changing the comment settings on a crossposting entry.
7. Pick relevant communities/filters/mood theme etc as appropriate.
8. Post.
9. Check DW and LJ to make sure nothing's borked.

[cyprinella]

1.) Pick title
2.) Write entry.
3.) Preview a lot during long entries because my long posts are usually extremely picture heavy.
4.) Icon.
5.) Security level
6.) Hit post then check post and crossposts.
7.) Once everything looks good, c&p to community if necessary (again, usually the picture-heavy posts.)

[zarhooie]

Load update page.
Wander away.
Come back.
Pick the journal/comm I want to post to.
Write subject.
Write entry.
Wander away.
Come back.
Read entry again, delete half of it and rewrite.
Pick appropriate icon.
Swear profusely when there's nothing applicable.
Go on (often extended) hunt for perfect icon.
Upload icon.
Come back.
Select icon from dropdown.
Say a quiet "fuck you" to tags.
Edit privacy (sometimes I do this before I write the entry if it's a sensitive entry).
Pick a mood.
Change my mind and pick another mood.
Change my mind AGAIN and go back to the original one.
Hit post.

[wychwood]

1. write entry (typically in gedit rather than the update page, though)
1a. preview if it's something complicated
2. add tags
3. add mood
3a. add music if I feel like it (rarely)
4. change icon
5. add subject
5a. change security if I'm not posting publicly (rarely)
6. post
7. check post for any problems

[princess]

My flow:

1) Pick journal
2) Pick icon
3) Pick security level (Sometimes this comes after write entry, if I write something, and THEN decide it should be locked.)
3) Write entry
5) Pick mood
6) Add location/music/tags
7) Hit post
8) Occasionally remember to re-read before comments come in telling me I messed up spelling my own name

(Edited to add) I never use spell check, as FF generally gets everything I want it to, and has my custom dictionary.

[swordage]

1. Write subject.
2. Write entry.
3. Pick icon.
4. Change security level as needed.
5. Preview if there's any significant HTML.
6. Post.
7. View journal to be sure cut tag isn't borked; click into entry from journal view to check entry's HTML etc.
8. Add tags. (even with the auto-suggest, the tag entry on the update page doesn't work for my brain.)

[swordage]

Forgot - 4a, change age restriction as needed.

[anatsuno]

1 write entry
2 add tags
3 look for the icon picker down there, don't find it, scroll up to pick icon
4 while I'm there, chec/pick journal (if I'm posting to a community, I might have scrolled up for the express purpose of picking the right comm before the icon picking happens.)
5 try to come up with a subject
6 write then erase then rewrite the subject
7 realize I forgot a tag, add it
7.5 (sometimes) go back to the icon, ponder another possibility, make a choice for a second time
8 check the crossposting tickies
9 pick the appropriate locking/filtering level
10 ignore spellcheck completely
10.5 (sometimes) click Preview mistakenly, thinking I'm clicking Post
11 post
12 ponder viewing entry to check, usually close that tab instead
13 reload my Droll, on which my entry should now appear
14+ notice typos/mistakes and open entry to edit it in a new tab, cursing my sloppy self (ad lib as necessary).

[glittertine]

Yeah, step 3. Me too. Every single time. >_>

Also, I sometimes - meaning maybe one in eight entries - write an entry, realise I don't like any of my uploaded icons, and go to upload or make one. I have been known to spend much longer on tweaking an icon to be just right for a post than I did on writing the post itself.

[beatrice_otter]

It varies, depending on how coherent what I want to write is in my mind before I start typing. If I know what I'm going to say, the order is:

1)pick icon
2)pick subject
3)write entry
4)add tags
5)Change comment settings if necessary.
6)Pick security level if other than default.
7)Post

I rarely preview, unless there's something really weird. Often I don't bother to check it, but go back to my reading page directly from there. If I'm still thinking about what to write, that goes to number one and the rest get bumped down.

I never thought it took this much effort to post...

[giglet]

Mine is a lot like your steps (and also almost exactly what I do for adding comments):

1. Pick an icon
2. Write a subject
3. Write entry.
4. Add tags.
5. Revise subject (since my posts are often not about what I thought they'd be about).
6. Revise icon.
7. Hit post.
8. Immediately view entry.
9. Reduce security level, if it's a public post.
10. Correct whatever errors I see as soon as it's posted.

[dmsj]

In theory, this is the order. Sometimes I forget a step and go back to correct it later.

1. Choose icon
2. Write subject
3. Write post
4. Add tags
5. Set mood
6. Write in location (which is always where in my house I am, unless I'm traveling)
7. Add music, if applicable.
8. Set security.
9. Post entry.
10. Click to my reading page or "view this entry," to make sure it's all set right.
11. Edit post to correct the fact that I posted in Rich Text instead of HTML.

So ... basically I do it all in order. :)

Oh, but sometimes there is a "pre-1," if I'm posting to my other account. Then I have to logout and log back in as thebearfamily. And after it's posted, I log back out again, and log in here, as it's my default.

[redbird]

I don't have a single order. However:

1. Write entry
2. Put in subject line (but sometimes I think of a subject line first, or during, and if so, it goes in when I think of it)
3. Pick security level if non-default (except that if it's in one of two specific security groups, I will usually lock it to that before starting to write).
4. Click on "crosspost to LJ."
5. Add tags.
6. Select an icon.
7. Preview.
8. Change comment settings if necessary (rare).
9. Sometimes, pick a mood.
10. Hit post.
11. Occasionally, look at entry to check that it isn't accidentally public when meant to be locked.

17. Go back and edit to fix errors pointed out by people who read the entry.

Q I'm sure I've missed something in that list.

[haruka]

1. Choose icon (this takes some time)
2. Pick subject, if I can think of one right away. If not move on to ...
3. Write entry
4. Go back to pick subject, if not done in step 2. If it was, add tags if desired (not always)
5. Add mood, if desired (not always)
6. Decide if crossposting
7. Hit post
8. Go back to change security setting if necessary (mine varies)

[ilyena_sylph]

1. realize I want to post.
2. grab journal.
3. try and remember to type subject line.
4. write entry.
5. tag.
6. decide if it is public, flocked, custom-locked.
7. decide if it needs a different icon than default.
8. eyeball formatting for funkiness.
9. hit post.
10. view entry to double check.
11. almost certainly have to edit something.

ETA: like realizing I meant to hit that crosspost ticky damn it.