Saving Future Posts

[ttyymmnn]

When I was writing my aviation stuff on Kinja, the Scheduled Post was a godsend. When Kinja pulled the plug, I had TDIAH posts scheduled out til the middle of December. Sadly, at least for now, there is no such feature on Hyphen.

However, there may be some sort of workaround. If you've done much with the editor, you'll see that it's all character/type based. So for tomorrow's TDIAH post, I assembled the entire post in the editor with formatting and photos and links, then select-all-copied/pasted it into a text file somewhere else. In this case, a blank email message. Opening a blank Hyphen post and pasting the contents back in completely recreates the post, pictures, links, formatting, the works. Since the photos are on my computer and their location hasn't changed, I assume there will be no problems there. And I also assume the same for any linked photos. The only photo that doesn't make the jump is the thumbnail for the front page.

So I'm going to make a leap of faith. I have completely done tomorrow's post, saved the info on the left side of the editor, and I will then delete the post. We'll see what happens tomorrow!

[davesaddiction]

@ttyymmnn You should do a short test post at the end of the day today, not submit or discard it, just close the window, and see if if pops up in the editor tomorrow (it does persist from tab to tab, just wondering how long it holds it in memory - if the browser is closed, for example).

[ttyymmnn]

@davesaddiction That works, but every time I want to do a new post throughout the day the previous post shows up. This might be an easier way to deal with that.

[Chariotoflove]

I don’t know of anyway to bump a post either, by changing the date and time like I used to. Do you know if that’s a thing here? Because I was originally planning to lengthen my post each day with the new entry and then bump it.

[davesaddiction]

@ttyymmnn Oh, for sure. And safer than trusting it to save your progress if you're halfway through something at the end of the night.

[Poor_sh]

@chariotoflove Don't they just go to the top of Recent if you reply?

[ttyymmnn]

@chariotoflove I don't know.

[davesaddiction]

@chariotoflove

I was thinking about doing an ICYMI post with my Best of OPPO compilation...

[Chariotoflove]

@poor_sh said in Saving Future Posts:

@chariotoflove Don't they just go to the top of Recent if you reply?

Yes, but only if you have posts set to display by order of new activity. Not if you have it set Kinja style by order of original post time.

[BicycleBuck]

@chariotoflove We can change that?!? I really need to spend some quality time learning this new system.

[Chariotoflove]

@bicyclebuck said in Saving Future Posts:

@chariotoflove We can change that?!? I really need to spend some quality time learning this new system.

Yes.