Nearly 300,000 words!

Just started exploring it, love being able to look at posts by readability levels. Makes it really easy to start developing collections as well. It has been such a pain in the past trying to find a post I wrote years ago and scrolling through years and years of posts. With the index, it's very easy to flick through and hop over all those inconsequential or time-limited posts.

It's great as it is, and a couple of things occurred to me:

• Being able to select posts by time period.
• When you're viewing search results, being able to select which ones you want to export (or maybe search further). For example, I would weed out a lot of time-limited posts.

On the recent posts to the handwritten community where I'm writing with a specific purpose (as opposed to throwing up a blog), I've been tracking engagement - page views, unique page views, average time (using peakd's dash board) - but also, manually, exploring things like how many comments in how many conversations and length of comments. I guess using something like the readability scores for comments would also give an indication about the depth/level of engagement? Were commenters engaging with complex ideas, for example, so there was some indication of how comments were extending ideas, sharing learning (and any other assumptions).

I've been thinking a lot about tag strategy/architecture so that it is easy for readers of a specific blog to find other similar posts in the back catalogue. So as part of engagement, it might interesting to view which tags/combinations of tags are getting responses in terms of views/comments etc.

I haven't used tags on comments (yet), but that would be interesting, too, especially for engagement.

Which brings me to another thought: I've had quite long periods when I haven't published a post, but I have published quite long (maybe 200 words) comments.

Anyway, these are all laters, but I thought it might be helpful to let you have some of the ideas that I've been pre-occupied with, as I've thinking about the new outward facing blogs that I'm setting up.