dreness -

Good suggestion. Just curious though... would you prefer to have the ability to copy your posts over and backdate them or just import an RSS feed from your other blog?

Good counter question. (Gabriel I've got more.)

Anyway. RSS feeds are nice, but in my case, I haven't used my Live Journal in a year, so I don't really want to link to it (though I'm sure it's something people could use. And if I were MyStrands, I'd want to keep as much content and posting activity onsite.) But what this user wants is the ability to consolidate some reviews and posts and put them here, and back dating posts is enough.

However, a further suggestion along these lines is having the ability to create and name a folder for journal posts, such as Really Bad Poetry. It would show up under "Entries by Month" you'd have maybe regular month by month folders, and then named folders.

Or, month by month folders would be the default, and you could do away with them, and organize it with folders the member names, like having a Diary/Journal folder and then one for Poetry, Movie Reviews and Art Projects. You could make an entry and direct it to whatever folder you wanted it to go to, and the most recent (regardless of folder) would show on the main journal page. (If that makes sense?)

I'm sure there's other ways to use a functionality like that.

My apologies, but I'm not sure I followed... it sounds like maybe a tag cloud would do what you are looking for? By clicking on one of the tags (aka "folders") we would display all of the entries that were related.

Did I get what you were asking for?

I didn't know what a tag cloud is. I figured it out.
Tags are getting more common. I didn't think to use it in that manner.

Hmmm.

As a visual person, I look for visual navigation first, such as a menu or breadcrumb bar or folder hierarchy, before I would look for a search. So if I were king, I'd still want to be able to place a tag cloud for a journal folder/topic I want to highlight above other tags in the menu to the right. I don't intuitively look to tags to do that.

Mind you, I realize I could be the only one asking for this.

Thanks. We are beginning a redesign and all feedback like this helps!