"My Threads" List "list of my solved threads / Unsolved threads / favourites list

[JimmyWilliams]

Hi guys,


I have multiple threads going at any one time.
I wish there was an way to list out all the threads involved in, and add or removed them from this list. That way I would be able to quickly find a topic and add additional information.
I.e I have learnt something new that would be really useful or suitable to a threat I posted 6months ago and this would allow me to add a new comment with the new information quickly.

This would also allow me to jump back to an unsolved thread I have not visited in a long time (due to whatever reason), and allow me to wrap it up neat / or continue working on that project.

And this would also allow me to jump back into helping other people's questions that I have already wrote on their thread, if I get an idea or solution in the future.

When I say "me", I mean any/all Excel Forum users ;p

Hope these ideas are helpful. I think the UI is a bit un-usefriendly and could be made to be a bit more powerful with some additional tools, and maybe touched up a bit for new-comers. I know I had a hugely difficult time trying to figure out the user interface when I was starting here, and the people who do the admin/moderators can come off a bit harsh asking people to stick to forum guidelines.. If the User interface was clearer, and had a systematic tutorial (again that was more user friendly) it could make life for the admin's easier too.

Having a list that tells a user of their "unsolved threads" would also give more power to users to go back and make sure that they mark them as "solved" or actually follow through with the question; again I can imagine this would reduce the workload on the admins, as they would have less threads to go through and sort out.
(I would personally put a limit on how many unsolved threads a person can have at any one time; allowing that number to increase as the user posts more and more and contributes within the community.)


Bit of a brain dump, but just trying to help!
Jimmy

[AliGW]

The forum rules are pretty clear. Anyone who joins agrees to them on joining, so our assumption must be that you have read them. There is nothing a moderator or administrator will ask of you that isn't covered. Nobody will mind if you ask how to do something if you are not sure.

Here they are: https://www.excelforum.com/forum-rul...rum-rules.html

[JimmyWilliams]

The forum rules are pretty clear. Anyone who joins agrees to them on joining, so our assumption must be that you have read them. There is nothing a moderator or administrator will ask of you that isn't covered. Nobody will mind if you ask how to do something if you are not sure.

Here they are: https://www.excelforum.com/forum-rul...rum-rules.html

From my personal experience. I've read the rules a few times and have had trouble making heads or tails of some of them (a lot seem obvious now). And when I did want to find the rules again, it took me ages to find where they were located on the forums (I know it shouldn't have, but again, that's user interface stuff and for a beginner).
And my god it was a struggle to find out things like quotes, inserting photos, adding code, etc etc.

The first time I tired to join the excel forum community was back in 2008, 2009 when I'd ask some questions and was met with hostility and half-boiled answers because I'd ask to do something, but didn't know anything to even begin attempting a solution.




I'm just saying that the system seems to


Personally I found trying to find information

[JimmyWilliams]

To answer my own original question:


Best way I can see to "organize or sort" your threads is to mark one's you're not interested in anymore as solved (and hopefully you make sure there is a solution to the problem); this allows a user to quickly determine if of the remaining threads they may still be interested in. However this does take a bit of scrolling through, and going through your history to find them... better than nothing though.

Cheers,
Jimmy

[AliGW]

I've only been a member since 2013, so can't comment on what it was like before then, but the forum rules have always been easy to find since I joined - they haven't moved from here:

EF Rules AliGW.png

There is no way to sort and organise your threads, I'm afraid, but you can copy important links to a OneNote file on your computer (or similar) if you want to organise it yourself. I don't think there's much flexibility in the forum software in this regard - it has been mentioned before.

[FDibbins]

To answer my own original question:


Best way I can see to "organize or sort" your threads is to mark one's you're not interested in anymore as solved (and hopefully you make sure there is a solution to the problem); this allows a user to quickly determine if of the remaining threads they may still be interested in. However this does take a bit of scrolling through, and going through your history to find them... better than nothing though.

Cheers,
Jimmy

Threads get marked SOLVED when the OP has an answer that satisfies their question. You can "unsubscribe" from threads you are not interested in

[Doc.AElstein]

Hi Jimmy,
I expect you already know this, but just to be sure, and for anyone else looking in, especially newer members_...

_.. Your User Control Panel, ( User CP, UCP ) , is a very useful thing and worth getting in the habit of using frequently.
It can go overlooked, - I myself only became aware of it 6 Months after joining when the E Mail notifications broke ( as they used to frequently ), and it was then suggested to me by Admin as an alternative way of keeping up on responses to subscribed Threads !! ( https://www.excelforum.com/suggestio...ml#post4168100 ) . ( Indeed, many Senior or very active Members disable their Email notifications to avoid being inundated with Emails, and prefer to use the User Control Panel to get up to stand on their Threads of current interest at their time of choosing…..)

If you use your User Control Panel, along with your ability to **subscribe and **unsubscribe to Threads, (** Any Threads, whether you are involved in them or not ) then that is initially a very good way to keep track of your current Threads of interest. This is because you get in your User Control Panel a full list of your subscribed Threads, ( as well as an additional list of any of those with recent responses !! )
I think that comes some way to getting a ….”….. way to list out all the threads involved in, and add or removed them from this list….”… - as Ford said… “….You can "unsubscribe" from threads you are not interested in..”

As time goes on , of course, it will take a while to scroll down once you are involved with many Threads.

User Control Panel
https://www.excelforum.com/usercp.php
http://imgur.com/dQnVdHv
http://www.excelforum.com/excel-gene...ml#post4560129
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I think to get any better system you will probably have to sort out / invent your own external system to keep track of things better.
It is to be encouraged IMO , to make suggestions as you have done, but past experience suggests that changes are unlikely to be made, at least in the foreseeable future…
I would personally recommend preparing all your post in a text File, or WORD, as I use, for example. Try and organise that in some way that you find personally easy to navigate. It has the extra advantage that you have a back up – That is important as there is a Forum Bug which can cause Post contents to vanish unexpectedly without trace: Usually that occurs when you try to do some form of editing https://www.excelforum.com/exceltip-...ens-when_.html )
I also use URL links liberally in my Posts. I personally find that that helps me to navigate around my own Posts.

Hope that is a little help

Alan


P.S. FWIW , my opinion, I think some moderator messages can be a bit harsh on newer members. I think many of us forget that we probably took a few months to twig to what a code tag was.. Lol..
Like many things, once you know something, any explanation of it seems clear to you and you can’t understand why anyone can’t follow them. Getting the message across to someone who does not know, aka Teaching, is actually a Talent very few people seem to posses. I have been “Taught” by more Teachers and Instructors then I can remember, School, College, Army etc etc.. But I think I can count on one hand the number who were anything close to good at it…




Edit P.S. 2

_ Another way to search for your stuff - the built in vBulletin search, - takes a bit of practice: https://www.excelforum.com/tips-and-...ed-search.html
_ Also remember you can view your started Threads: When logged-In click on your name and select ---- View Profile http://imgur.com/GXgfUxr ----- Find latest started threads



Misc Refs:
https://www.excelforum.com/suggestio...new-users.html
https://www.excelforum.com/tips-and-...ed-search.html
https://www.excelforum.com/suggestio...ost-quick.html




EDIT3: Thanks for the Rep thingy

[JimmyWilliams]

Cheers Alan!

Interesting read.

Thanks,

Jimmy