Smaller sections within summary blogposts: "archaeo-logs" for brief and quick notes
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It all begun when I had this nice idea of publishing short thoughts while reading/watching/playing along narrative medias, as small sub-sections within a "summary" blogpost and without the need to write another complete one.
As the first occasion to test this idea happened writing about Black Desert and Digimon Adventures, I've almost automatically named these sub-sections "Adventurer's logs", with a related class="adventurer-log"
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Right before writing this I noticed how I've almost missed the bad-pun of rather calling each section an "Archaeologist's log", or even better: an "archaeo-log"!
Too bad this is not all in french, otherwise the pronunciation would be similar to "archéologue" and be even funnier as it means = "archaeologist"... x)
Back on trails, to remind not to loose myself in dad-jokes, the first idea of these "archaeo-logs" was to present thoughts as a consecutive set of updated (and possibly brief) journal entries.
Now this "possibly brief" went from a casual comment on this early test to a crucial matter for the website's structure.
Now now, I know that before going into such specific issues I should be first documenting about the general organisation choices, like the whole way I've structure the indexes and blogposts in category and directories.
However now I'm not up to it, sorry future me and anyone else who'd ever check this, but I'd rather comment on this matter at the moment of choosing it and come back to the rest later. Bear with me please.
So I was writing the first "single" blogposts in the Archaeology category when I noticed I wasn't pretty happy about the way they end up being organised. Namely, if I am to add brief notes to a "summary" blogpost, I cannot add many images as if those notes become a lot then the blogpost size gets bloated.
A simple solution to this could be to fragment the content of the blogpost, just like I did before, deciding not to have too many single-webpages to host all contents.
Now though: should I remove those sub-sections if I fragment into other blogposts?
I think not, as one doesn't exclude the other, and I do believe having a quick way to add brief comments as I go along is crucial for me to keep publishing contents.
To conclude, the proposition is to use "summary" blogposts as a sort of indexes for the contents created on the related series. Inside theme I could write general considerations and then simply make a list of episodes/contexts in which I felt like commenting along, internally linking to each brief comment as "archaeo-log" sections.
Whenever I feel like delving deeper into the it or adding more contents (and potentially heavier on the webpage such as screenshots), I should simply create a new and dedicated blogpost to link from within these sub-sections.
And that's it for the moment!
...let's see how I far I go before changing idea again. D:''
Recalibrating...
After a little trial, the archaeo-logs are not bad ideas, but I truly need to make them briefer or they won't make much sense.
I will therefore update other blogposts where I've written too much into, like the "Archaeology in O'dyllita questline" to simply link to extended and dedicated posts; then I'm starting to just take brief and possibly listed notes inside each log, or simply just listing them without dedicated logs/posts (until I eventually decide to expand on them -if I do at all).
This way I hope I'll achieve an almost complete list of relevant stuff, only potentially explored deeper, anyway neatly organised and left for possible future inquiry.