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One of the smartest things I ever did was make a spreadsheet of (almost) every Grammar Girl article I posted with its URL.
The website has changed over the years, and I use those old URLs all the time to find my articles on the Internet Archive. All. The. Time.
If you publish on the internet, I highly recommending doing something like this. You never know when you'll lose access to your pages.
I have that spreadsheet backed up in about six different places too!
@grammargirl@zirk.us Great advice! Personally I've tried to make a habit of writing & saving some of my articles/posts offline before copying over and adjusting in content management systems. Less convenient/practical, but...
Redundancies on redundancies rarely hurt!
@grammargirl at my university library we use the Wayback Machine a lot to find "lost" web sources, including old NZ government documents ~ which is quite shocking really in a democracy...
@grammargirl To be fair, our National Library has a web archiving project that is often helpful (https://natlib.govt.nz/collections/a-z/new-zealand-web-archive/) but it doesn’t capture all government publications before they vanish, unfortunately.
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@grammargirl You might be interested in https://archivebox.io, an opensource archive .org -like tool where you can archive web stuff yourself...
@grammargirl Only written a handful of articles, great advice! I do similar but also PDF/screenshot them all and story the text as markdown too.
@grammargirl I also back everything not only to my external drives, but to Internet Archive as well. I had to learn this lesson the hard way after losing material from older websites I had.
@grammargirl I have a database that I usually keep updated, but I've fallen off that lately with the URLs. I need to get it caught up!
@grammargirl FWIW my favourite tool is Airtable, which currently has a robust free plan. So much more than a spreadsheet, and you can export to spreadsheet which is helpful for data independence.
The thing I love about it is you can select a record, hit your space bar, and the whole thing expands. As well as the ease of export, so you have your backup.
@grammargirl That’s a smart idea. Now please invent a time machine to take me back to 1998 so I can do that.
@grammargirl I've had a fun journey for saving a huge amount of links for future reference.
I can't get myself to like Apple Numbers so Excel is my default & links don't save there as clickable. I found that #scrivener saves immediately as a clickable link so I shoved TONS of links and things into a giant file until it started to slow WAY down. Maybe misuse of tools?
I recently moved over to a #bbedit project which seems to have NO limits… well, other than you can't save graphics.