Share your item archiving workflow


RPG Superstar™ General Discussion

Star Voter Season 6, Dedicated Voter Season 7, Star Voter Season 8

I save many (or all) of the items that come up in voting, and I know some of you all do as well, so as a distraction, here's how I'm saving items:

  • In Firefox, I select the item, right-click, pick View Selection Source, and copy the HTML.
  • I dump the HTML into an HTML-to-BBCode converter.
  • I copy the generated BBCode to a keep, reject, or further review file, depending on what I want to do with that item. (For me, the further review file is for items I'll keep an eye out for in the post-RPGSS critique thread.)

Once I get on a roll, it's all doable within the minute it takes for the buttons to unlock.

Does anyone have a better HTML-to-BBCode solution? Maybe a bookmarklet that converts selected text to BBCode? Or maybe a notable item-archiving solution of their own?

RPG Superstar 2009 Top 16, 2012 Top 32 , Marathon Voter Season 6, Marathon Voter Season 7, Marathon Voter Season 8, Marathon Voter Season 9 aka Epic Meepo

I'm much too lazy to preserve the HTML.

For me, it's just Control-A, Control-C, tab, Control-V. Rinse and repeat.

Afterwards, I'll run the resulting text file through a file editor to chop out the redundant, non-item text I'm catching in my copy-pasta. Aside from the file editor pass at the end, my text-only archiving is averaging a grand total of 3 seconds per vote.

RPG Superstar 2010 Top 32, 2011 Top 4 , Marathon Voter Season 6, Marathon Voter Season 7, Marathon Voter Season 8, Marathon Voter Season 9 aka DankeSean

I'm trying to keep a tally and archive this year as well. Like Eric, Not bothering with HTML, just copying the text into a word doc. Also this year keeping a spreadsheet record so I can have an easier list of item names, pairings, votes and # of appearances. (And keep a track of pre and post cull items, when such happens. Didn't think to do so last year.)
I don't have anywhere near as much time as I did to vote last year, so in the end I probably won't have as near-complete a list as I did in 2013, but hopefully I'll be able to help fill in some gaps again.

Dedicated Voter Season 7, Dedicated Voter Season 8

Um, I,m playing scrabble on another device to kill of wait time when I see repeats.i have only cribbed one item description because it was so good.

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