Of interest to me and possibly other users: what model phone, and what provider? Also curious what you mean when you say it's going insane...
Regarding catch up posts, I think if the purpose is to build your own practice of posting, then you should indeed do an additional post. Best practice would be to post immediately upon realizing you missed a post, then post again later in the day (unless you already posted much earlier in the day), so as to space things out.
However, since you asked, I would prefer that you please not label them catch-up posts. It gets tedious after a while. Just find something interesting to say, and say it.
Are people more likely to respond if you ask a question? Not sure. Have you tried a poll?
I don't think I have access to polls, due to the nature of my LJ membership. That may have changed, but I didn't used to have the ability to post polls.
My phone is an HTC EVO Android from Sprint. What I mean by insane is it starts having "leaky memory," which is that it starts to believe the internal memory is full, regardless of the reality. The first sign seems to be no longer syncing with Gmail, and everything goes downhill after that, until it randomly trashes some apps (usually Angry Birds, oddly enough) and the data (even though it is supposed to be on the SD card). That is usually the point at which we blow it back to factory settings.
I definitely try to space multiple posts, unless there is a reason not to. I'm undecided on the catch-up post aspect of things. I can see how it might become tedious, but at this stage for me it seems relevant to comment --for myself-- on the catch-up aspect and my need to re-form the posting habit.
Similarly to netmouse, I prefer posts that are about what you're doing or feeling, as opposed to mention of how often you're managing to post. It feels a little recursive.... ;-) As to whether to actually do the catch-up post, I would not myself, but I don't see any harm in it.
But you have fairly consistently been posting to LJ, I think.
Whereas I'm trying to rebuild the journaling habit. I made a commitment to myself to journal each day, even if it is something small, and when I don't even hit that goal, I do feel that I need to do something that acknowledges that and helps reinforce the journaling habit.
I actually go weeks without posting on LJ, believe it or not. I don't think I usually post more than 3 times/month. Recently I've probably posted a bit more because of the SFWA kerfuffle.
If you want to note which posts are catch-up you should absolutely do so. But you asked what worked for readers, so I was just chiming in. I'm not sure I was clear, though; I meant to make a distinction between doing the catch-up posts (definitely yes if that's working for you), and explicitly stating to everyone that it's a catch-up post. Just from the reader perspective, seeing a lot of posts start with such a statement doesn't add anything. But really a journal is meant to be more from the writer's perspective than the reader's perspective, so if it's important to you to state it, by all means.
What Netmouse and Amysisson said. No need to label the posts updates or catch up. If you want to catch up, just make two or three posts on different subjects.
I agree with Dave and Anne, that from a reader perspective, I don't need to know that they're catch up posts. But as you raise in your comment to Anne, if you need it for your intentional practice of journaling daily, then you should do it. I've always figured that people should do what they want on their journals... Although you did ask about works for readers, so...
I was talking to Motorcycle Boy last night about the distinction between the reader viewpoint and the journaler's needs.
And while I did ask about what works for readers, I think what I was asking about was the actual number of posts.
And sometimes, the time has been so tight and my brain so fried that, really, the only thing I had to say was basically "space holder for post that should of been here but wasn't and if I don't put something up there will be further decay in the practice and I really need to make this work for me again so here, here is something that just says I didn't post and here this counts now."
But I'm turning this input over in my head. I may have a solution, but we shall see.
Ahh, should have read this before I responded again. That makes more sense to me now! So, as to number of posts: I don't think about it from a reader perspective. I'm just happy to see my friends' posts when they appear.
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Regarding catch up posts, I think if the purpose is to build your own practice of posting, then you should indeed do an additional post. Best practice would be to post immediately upon realizing you missed a post, then post again later in the day (unless you already posted much earlier in the day), so as to space things out.
However, since you asked, I would prefer that you please not label them catch-up posts. It gets tedious after a while. Just find something interesting to say, and say it.
Are people more likely to respond if you ask a question? Not sure. Have you tried a poll?
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My phone is an HTC EVO Android from Sprint. What I mean by insane is it starts having "leaky memory," which is that it starts to believe the internal memory is full, regardless of the reality. The first sign seems to be no longer syncing with Gmail, and everything goes downhill after that, until it randomly trashes some apps (usually Angry Birds, oddly enough) and the data (even though it is supposed to be on the SD card). That is usually the point at which we blow it back to factory settings.
I definitely try to space multiple posts, unless there is a reason not to. I'm undecided on the catch-up post aspect of things. I can see how it might become tedious, but at this stage for me it seems relevant to comment --for myself-- on the catch-up aspect and my need to re-form the posting habit.
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Whereas I'm trying to rebuild the journaling habit. I made a commitment to myself to journal each day, even if it is something small, and when I don't even hit that goal, I do feel that I need to do something that acknowledges that and helps reinforce the journaling habit.
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If you want to note which posts are catch-up you should absolutely do so. But you asked what worked for readers, so I was just chiming in. I'm not sure I was clear, though; I meant to make a distinction between doing the catch-up posts (definitely yes if that's working for you), and explicitly stating to everyone that it's a catch-up post. Just from the reader perspective, seeing a lot of posts start with such a statement doesn't add anything. But really a journal is meant to be more from the writer's perspective than the reader's perspective, so if it's important to you to state it, by all means.
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And while I did ask about what works for readers, I think what I was asking about was the actual number of posts.
And sometimes, the time has been so tight and my brain so fried that, really, the only thing I had to say was basically "space holder for post that should of been here but wasn't and if I don't put something up there will be further decay in the practice and I really need to make this work for me again so here, here is something that just says I didn't post and here this counts now."
But I'm turning this input over in my head. I may have a solution, but we shall see.
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