I have a unique need which is at the edge of normal operation but would appreciate suggestions on how I could approach the issue.
We are moving from a listserv type periodic digest to Discourse. Our current digests include links and an invitation to join our Discourse based Community, which happens under SSO. After 8 weeks 800 (about half) have done so.
Some members like the digest and are reluctant to move. We wish to continue to support those users at least for a time, even if through a manual process: once or twice a week we can handle.
My current idea is to periodically pick a single topic, copy-paste into a text processor (which I would write) to scrub out the repeating text (like âBookmark Share Flag Replyâ) and send it on our current digest mailer.
The question: How could I âmarkâ each topic I send to remind me not to send it again? Flagging it is wrong. I thought about giving the topic a âyou made the digestâ badge, but badges go to users.
The only thing I can think of is to bookmark the ones I use. It would be nice to have a search for non-bookmarked topics but only âbookmarkedâ is an option.
Am I missing a simple solution?
It would also be nice to have a way to download a topic without the repeating text content, but that seems more complicatedâŚ
As well, going to the tag url would display all of the topics that youâve applied that tag to. Taking it one step further, you could also use CSS to color that tag specifically so that itâs easy to spot. Something like this, where digested is replaced with the tag you want to use:
Thank you both! That would work with one challenge: when you add a tag to a topic it updates the edit timestamp so that topic comes to the top of the âlatestâ stack again.
I may be able to make that work since Iâm only doing one at a time, although I recently ran into that as an issue when I added a new tag and updated several old messages⌠they all rose mysteriously to the top.
Interesting. Thanks! Researching that also led me to two other interesting solutions: Staff notes or staff color. I could add a note about when I used that topic, which could be useful. Or just set the color.
Iâll assume that âstaff colorâ is only visible to the staff⌠I continue to be amazed at the clever features in this tool as I learn.