My diaspora tips

v1.2

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Obtain the universal (pod-independent) link for a post.

There an extension for that, thanks to Deus Figendi.
Install greasemonkey (Firefox) or tampermonkey (Chrome) and then install Add podsavelink for Greasemonkey.

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Add comments to reshares (quote posts)

There an extension for that, thanks to Deus Figendi.
Install greasemonkey (Firefox) or tampermonkey (Chrome) and then install Quote post

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Markdown

Get markdown code for links, pages, images

Install Copy as Markdown for Chrome & Firefox:

With a right-click you can copy:

• Current Tab Title + URL as a link
• A Hyperlink in page
• An Image in page, with alternative text
• All tabs in current window as a list of links (click the toolbar button)

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Copy excerpts of webpages as markdown

Drap and drop to and from Mark It Down!

(seems to be working better on Chromium)

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Excellent WYSIWYG markdown editor

https://stackedit.io/

Features : can be synchronized on CouchDB so you can work collectively; comment are possible; no login necessary.

Useful for Diaspora posts you want to keep and improve for republication and for collective, wiki-like posts.

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Super useful diaspora pages you've never seen : liked and commented

Liked
Pages you like (<3) can be used to show interest to others and also to keep as favorites for later. However, reading those liked pages in "My activity" is a problem because there are lots of other things there.

Solution : go to your liked page!

The address is https://your.pod/liked

Commented

To follow your conversations, the notification area is sparse, and the notification page does not provide more info.

Solution : go to your commented page!

The address is https://your.pod/commented

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Keyboard shortcuts

j- next message | k - previous message

also :

c - comment | l - like

(bugs) Search posts using multiple tags (or keywords)

This is suggested for testing :
Use a search engine!
search :
mywork photo (or other combinations of words) site:joindiaspora.com OR site:diasp.org OR site:nerdpol.ch OR site:diaspora-fr.org OR site:poddery.com OR site:wk3.org OR site:pod.geraspora.de OR site:socializer.cc (add other diaspora pods)

notes :
- some pods seem to show up much too often in search results (socializer.cc in particular);

- results vary greatly from one search engine to another;

- many posts do not show the searched words;

- some pages do not exist anymore.

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Work in progress : comment here or contribute there, or both.

Previous version and comments here

Thanks to @Michał &quot;rysiek&quot; Woźniak, @nino ♥, @goob, @phle, @Noam Bergman, @harry haller (nerdpol.ch) and the incredible @Deus Figendi :)

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