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Before
I get to today’s post, I want to give an apology to those who have been
following this blog: I goof up
again. I am trying to make my life a
little easier by automatically uploading blog posts from Blogger to
pinterest. I often use a website called
Ifttt.com to perform little tasks for uploading stuff. Unfortunately, instead of getting a recipe
that uploads my posts after I publish them to my pinterest board, it is posting
everything I repin from my feed (like a greeting card idea I like), and posting
it to Blogger on this blog. It is not
doing it to my other blogs. It has
gotten traffic, just not the traffic I wanted for this blog. The ones that were repined, should be for my P.Lynne
Designs blog, NOT this one.
If
you are here to learn about different writing techniques and my musings, I
again apologize, and if you do not mind the posts, ignore my apology. Either way, I have stopped the recipe from
automatically posting pins that have nothing to do with my post. I am, however, learning to create one on my
own, and not rely of others. With that being
said, I hope you will enjoy today’s post.
Research can be a bear (I had another name, but I am
trying to keep it G). In case you have
lived under a rock, this is how research used to be: Come up with a subject. Narrow down the subject. Go to the library. If your family was lucky, you had a set of
encyclopedias and you looked up information that way. You wrote out your information of 3x5 cards
(10 points if you showed it to the teacher as proof you did it). You arranged your cards in order of appearance
in your report (essay, dissertation, thesis, Et. all), and that was the hard
part. Now, you have to write the little
bugger. Typing was, and still is not my
strongest skill, so using the typewriter was really grueling, and you spell
check was the dictionary (my parents had Webster’s, the only game in town
according to them). If you messed up,
you had to either use whiteout, a typewriter eraser, or rip the whole thing out
and start the page over again. Thank God I had caring teachers who did allow students
to write the report in their own handwriting.
When I was a teen, computers were introduce to the home, and life got a
little simpler.
Today, I do not know how we got along without computer. You do not have to go to the library, take
notes on a 3 x 5 index card, and so forth.
I do not remember the last time I was in a library. I just look up my information on Google to
research my subject, type out my post (or article), but what do you do with all
that information you find. Well you can
store it on an external drive, your internal drive on your computer, or on a
cloud drive. How about your browser? If you have not made this discovery, let me
show you have it is done.
I am using Google Chrome, but any browser can actually
do this. You just have to know how to
save.
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Click the right
button on the mouse to bring up the menu, and go to “add folder”.
This should bring up a menu like this:
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Type in a name such as “research”, “musings” (you come
up with the name)
And your folder should look like this on the saved bar
(what I am calling it from now on)
Next, you want to save the website that you are
researching on, so highlight the URL.
Then drag it to the new folder.
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Now if you need to go to the website, instead of
typing in the URL each time, just go to your research folder in your
browser. It saves time, no need to
think of the URL each time, and a bunch of trees (no more little pieces of
paper with the URL floating around your desk).
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