I've kept your link on file

@p1kef1sh (45681)
July 15, 2008 5:41pm CST
One of the fantastic things about myLot is that if we ask for help we are rapidly inundated with tips and hints and links to sites that may be able to help us. But what do we do with these things? Do we file them neatly in a database of link library or just leave them lying about in the responses and think "if I need it I can always come back and get it". Personally I am good at recipes, I cut and past those usually, but useless at the rest. Do you file away the advice and links that you receive from your discussions?
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@Hatley (163781)
• Garden Grove, California
15 Jul 08
hi pikefish I am afraid I am very lazy and just leave these links lying around my profile.I am too intent on mylotting and doing responses and discussions and every thing just goes by the wayside.lol
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Jul 08
Can I join you club please Hatley. I am much the same. LOL.
@littleowl (7157)
16 Jul 08
Hi p1kef1sh-am hopless at copying and pating so normally write the links down in a book which I keep specially for links-thing is I can copy but don't know how to paste the link!! good eh-your friend littleowl
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@littleowl (7157)
16 Jul 08
Thanks p1kef1sh-yes I do have windows and can copy but dont know how to paste it may have to read a book!!
@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Jul 08
I read a book once. But these days I just look out of the Windows. Groan.....
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
21 Jul 08
If the links are useful I will add them to favorites so that I will have them when I need them to later check up on. I also will copy and paste the links and recipes into a text folder and then save it for later or print it off as needed.
@mtdewgurl74 (18151)
• United States
21 Jul 08
If you seen my house you wouldn't think I was organized..lol I think the only thing is halfway organized is my favorites list and that is because it doesn't take much to add to favorites or to a text folder. Otherwise in everything else I am hopeless..
@p1kef1sh (45681)
21 Jul 08
I am put to shame. You are so organised. LOL.
@mummymo (23706)
17 Jul 08
I have bee known to bookmark links that could be very useful p1ke my darling and that way I can always find them when I am looking for them. I have tried looking for links I had seen in a post and it is impossible for the most part! I hadn't really thought of cut and paste and keeping things that way - that must be cos I am not as organised as you are sweetheart! xxx
@mummymo (23706)
17 Jul 08
LOL You are more organised than me and you know it! How did everything go today sweety? xxx
@p1kef1sh (45681)
17 Jul 08
Very well Thank you. I even worked longer hours as we were so busy. Must be my adoring public. I'm so modest!! Lots of Germans and Austrians plus school trips. Also a young girl from Alabama with whom I had a long conversation about weird laws. Don't ever go to church there wearing a false mustache with the intention of making the congregation laugh!! It's not allowed.
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@p1kef1sh (45681)
17 Jul 08
I wish that I were more organised Mummymo. But I am useless. I do have some bookmark links but I often forget that they are there! XX
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@ferdzNK (3211)
• Philippines
16 Jul 08
Hi P1kef1sh, you are very right about those things. There are some that I bookmarks, some that I copy, just plain text, that I save in my documents and most I hope I remember. Mylot has this search anyway so this is one help. This is why I tag too on discussions that interest me. So that I could somehow find it later.
@ferdzNK (3211)
• Philippines
16 Jul 08
Yes it does, but only a few knew how to use it.(
@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Jul 08
The myLot search facility is useful and I use it frequently.
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@skinnychick (6905)
• United States
18 Jul 08
I usually save the recipes, I get on here. We have some great mylot chefs. I have made some delicious food thanks to my pals here. There are times when I have gone back to discussions for the advice as well. I guess you could call me a mylot packrat!
• United States
18 Jul 08
Ewwwwwwwwwwww grits!! Yuck! Fried chicken is a pain in the ars to make but well worth it. It's so good! Do you mind emailing me the recipe! I would be forever grateful!
@p1kef1sh (45681)
18 Jul 08
I shall have to go and find it now! I'll send it as soon as I can get to it. Today or tomorrow though.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
18 Jul 08
I have too Skinny. I've just been given a recipe for fried chicken. Now I've never really had fried chicken so I can't wait to try it out. I've a few chili recipes that are all fantastic too. I've also found out what grits are. I don't think so thank you. LOL.
@dorypanda (1601)
18 Jul 08
If I ask a question here it's either daft or I need the answer for a reason, you know, like if I ask for help with a computer game, I need to use the answer immediately, so I don't need to store it anywhere. I have stored links and things before though, but Mr.Panda clears the computer out on a regular basis, so there's no point me storing much as it won't be there for long. I do think that if I really NEED to know an answer to something I'll keep hold of it, but usually I come back to it later. Generally the 'real life' questions are answered by the mine of useless information that is my Mother and what I can't get answered from her, I then ask my sisters and occasionally my Dad or Mr.Panda, sometimes even Teenpanda.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
18 Jul 08
I try in a half hearted way but I'm not very good. I usually ask your mum too. She's very wise but she doesn't let on.
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
16 Jul 08
I would book mark them and then go to them at a later time and take a look if they are any use to me If they are not then I will delete them from the Book mark but if they are I will leave them there and then go back at a later time and take a good look at it to see if it is any help to me
@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Jul 08
Putting them into bookmarks is a good idea Gabs. Trouble is I have so many blooming bookmarks that I often wonder what is what!
• United States
16 Jul 08
Depending on the advice I either cut and paste it to a document or save the email notification I got detailing what was said in a special folder in my email. If I had to try to find the discussion again that could take days...lol
@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Jul 08
I know that "it's here somewhere" feeling. I should try harder than I do Cyn.
• United States
16 Jul 08
Not usually. I rarely read the links, anyway, especially when the discussion is all about what's written in the link. If I receive a discussion of "hints" or "tips", or some manner of advice that I like, I just put the email itself into the special folder I created just for myLot advice/recipes/etc. I've liked a few discussions, thought "Oh, I'll come back to this for something else later." only to have it taken down moments later. If I do check a link, I may occasionally bookmark it to come back to, but only rarely. If I really like a recipe, I'll copy/paste it and edit it into "recipe format" (lol). MyLot isn't always the best about leaving up helpful discussions, so I just make sure to do it myself, if I bother about it at all.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Jul 08
You sound a lot like me. I have a fantastic database that I want to use to store links and recipes etc. Have I set it up yet. Have I heck!
@GreenMoo (11834)
16 Jul 08
I either put the links in my favourites, or I make a folder in my inbox where I put the response If I've had it by email. Nine times out of ten I will never look at it again, but the thought is there at least!
@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Jul 08
That's sort of one of my excuses for not saving them. But as you say, it's the thought (that counts).
@kenzie45230 (3560)
• United States
16 Jul 08
If someone provides a link that is helpful to me, I usually bookmark it so I can find it again. As one who has fibromyalgia (and fibro fog because of that), I find that if I don't do that immediately I will remember later that I wanted to save something but not remember what it was. :-)
@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Jul 08
I have so many bookmarks it drives me crazy. I don't know much about fibromyalgia but I have heard of that "fog".
@r011aka (79)
• India
16 Jul 08
no. not at all!!! i save all the good links of the sites
@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Jul 08
Good. Well done. Welcome to myLot.
@reckon21 (3479)
• Philippines
16 Jul 08
I keep them in a folder so that i can easilly remember and access them. Receiving tips from other my lot members is for me a blessing. That's why i want to keep it in a safe place. We never knew when we will need it. That's one good thing about this site. You need help? there are many members who are willing to share their ideas. You only have to ask and it will be given.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Jul 08
The members of this site are incredible. You have a question and they'll do their best to answer it. I hope that you are enjoying your time here.
@webeishere (36313)
• United States
15 Jul 08
I've a lot of things from here saved and copied for future referance. recipes are some things as well as some tips on pruning and growing a few things. This site has gotten me a lot of things I would have had to search the internet for and that makes it great for me. HAPPY POSTINGS FROM GRANDPA BOB !!~
@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Jul 08
That's very organised Grandpa Bob. I wish that I were too.
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
16 Jul 08
I have received alot of tips from other members of Mylot over the years too. I have kept a mental file of the things that stuck with me the most. I discarded some of the things I was tipped on though. I have also saved some of them to a file for safekeeping also.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Jul 08
My memory is so dodgy Steph. I can vaguely remember things, but, especially in a recipe, there's usually something critical that I forget. LOL.
@checapricorn (16061)
• United States
16 Jul 08
Hi p1kef1sh, I honestly just leave them there after checking the site and learning from it.. But, when about books and authors, I always take note about it since I have no good memory in recalling names especially authors that I don't bump yet! LOL! This is a great reminder, I am thinking now to bookmark those important links for future purposes!
@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Jul 08
I am learning from this discussion too Checapricorn. You'd better get bookmarking. LOL.
@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
16 Jul 08
I do, only if I feel that I will need it again in the future. I will email it to myself and then label a folder for it.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Jul 08
That is SO organised Rozie. I need lessons I think. LOL.
@ellie333 (21016)
15 Jul 08
Hi P1kef1sh, Me being the practical person that I am I will go into the link and then add it to my favourites list in a folder that relates to the subject or in what I call a links folder. This way I don't have to rack my brains as to which discussion I had posted that this super link was in. Ellie :D
@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Jul 08
Wow. That's impressive Ellie. I wish I was as well organised.
@ruby222 (4847)
15 Jul 08
You are looking at the worlds worst link storer here.i look at them and think that I must keep them,and then it all goes slightly pear shaped and the next thing my butterfly mind has zoomed off onto another plane.Recipes are just not my forTE,i MAY look at them to find that I more than likely only have a half of the ingredients used,so then I tend to make it all up as iI go along,and the end is sometihng that usually tastes fine,but bears no resemblance to the pictured article.
@p1kef1sh (45681)
16 Jul 08
We are related aren't we Ruby? You sound so much like me sometimes. Why does your butterfly have a plane? Do its wings not work?