Filters?!

[tally]

Yooooo okay so I just discovered the power of filters here on DW.  These things are great!  This is going to make my reading page so much easier to go through!

How are y'all using filters?  By fandom?  By type of content people post?

Right now, as first iteration, I'm separating people into like "gamers" and "writers" for example.  But of course then what do you do if someone is both an avid gamer and a writer?  Do you put them in both filters even though that creates a redundancy, or do you pick one for them even though that is less accurate?

Or is it more useful to mainly use filters for categorizing communities instead of individual journals?

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[darkoshi]

I have a set of reading filters that separates the journals I follow into a few different groups. I have links to each filter on my browser's home page. It reduces the number of unread posts I see when I open any one of them (versus my full reading page), which gives me a more manageable chunk of posts to read at one time without feeling overwhelmed.

If I want to see if a particular person has posted something new, I can open the link for the filter which they are in (I usually can remember that), and scroll down to check the unread posts (versus opening my profile to get the link to go directly to their page, which takes more clicks).

There is one person who posts many links. I have them in one filter; I'm more likely to skip that one when I'm low on time or not feeling up to reading bad news.

I have another person who posts one link-post per day (which they tag as "links"), but also other non-link posts. So in one of my reading filters, I include their non-link posts by including the condition:
"and the entry is tagged with -none- of the selected tags: links"
Then I also have a separate link on my homepage to just their link posts, which again I skip when I'm low on time: https://andrewducker.dreamwidth.org/tag/links
You could do the same thing if you never want to see posts with certain tags, or if you *only* want to see a person's posts with certain tags. That only works when they use those tags consistently.