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I imagine you first write the (long) blog and then generate the <500k pieces for the threaded post, correct?
Are you doing this manually or do you have a tool that does the segmentation? If so, which one?
Losing so much time with this.
Excellent idea for all people with a desktop job 👍
"I have a chronic pain problem and I really shouldn't sit on the sofa for more than 10 minutes, so I use a timer and get up every 10 minutes and do one minute of physio."
"First and foremost, I do it for me. The memex I've created by thinking about and then describing every interesting thing I've encountered is hugely important for how I understand the world. It's the raw material of every novel, article, story and speech I write.
And I do it for the causes I believe in. There's stuff in this world I want to change...
... for the better. Explaining what I think is wrong, and how it can be improved, is the best way I know for nudging it in a direction I want to see it move."
"Next I past the whole post into a Mastodon compose field. Working by trial and error, I cut it down to <500 characters, breaking at a para-break and putting the rest on my clipboard. I post, reply, and add the next item in the thread until it's all done."
That's how I still do it, too.
However, IMO there are better ways to do this automatically.
If MS-Excel had bigger (rather unlimited) field lengths, I could program it myself...
...I'm pretty sure, using #VisualBasic, it should be possible.
The #footnotes issue I described at the beginning of this thread is probably the most difficult part.
But leaving that point aside, it is simply capturing the length of the whole text, subtracting the length of the #hashtags, the heading, and the subtitle(s), as well as of the credits ("via/by...") from the 500 limit and then cutting the total blog texts in segments.
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