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Incomplete Series Challenge > Because Emily Did Not In Fact Remember All The Series She Was Reading…

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message 1: by Tonari no Emily (last edited Apr 20, 2022 12:44AM) (new)

Mar 06, 2022 06:27AM

Tonari no Emily (emlfem) | 5115 comments

So yeah. I thought I had a pretty good handle on all of the series I've started and would like to continue eventually... But I started trying ticking off in my head what I have going on and it's too much to keep a mental track of. So here we are with another challenge :)

This is pretty complete to my knowledge, but I'll probably pretty it up later.
Edit: Using this spreadsheet that I templated off of Iain's spread sheet 😅https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

Up to Date
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Its Been Years
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Definitely Active
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I’m working on it
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Finished (hopefully)
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Probably Never
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Soon to Start
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Want to start eventually
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message 2: by Tonari no Emily (new)

Mar 06, 2022 06:29AM

I have 3 categories for continuing series based on priority and when's the last time I touched them. Mostly divided at the 5 year mark..

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message 3: by Tonari no Emily (new)

Mar 06, 2022 06:35AM

Im not including short stories in determining if somwthing is up to date cuz thats too much to keep track of

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message 4: by Timelord Iain, Tech Support (last edited Mar 06, 2022 12:10PM) (new)

Mar 06, 2022 12:08PM

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I have a spreadsheet tracking literally like 1000 series (ok, 599)... at some point I revamped it so short stories are just a checkmark for existing... some series generate too many short stories to keep up with tracking, nevermind reading...

It's grown more sophisticated over the years, as I learned more spreadsheet tricks, working on the Competition sheet...

It's accurate through the end of 2021: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

I'm pretty big into conditionally formatted, automatic color coding...

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message 5: by Tonari no Emily (new)

Mar 06, 2022 09:28PM

oooooh so nice! I might end up having to do something like that cuz that will be much easier to track than a goodreads post lol

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message 6: by Timelord Iain, Tech Support (new)

Mar 07, 2022 01:36AM

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originally, I tried to maintain a half dozen tabs, but it was such a hassle moving books between tabs when I caught up on something...

Then I learned about queries and filters... so now there's a Master Series List, and the other 5 lists are populated based on series progress in the Incomplete/UTD/etc column...

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message 7: by Tonari no Emily (new)

Mar 07, 2022 03:13AM

Well that's handy! I have some excel/sheets skills, but I haven't gotten into all that..
Now that I'm thinking of it, it probably would have come in handy for my thesis when I was managing large data sets lol

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message 8: by Timelord Iain, Tech Support (new)

Mar 07, 2022 04:23AM

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For sure… sheets/excel have tons of useful tools to collect, sort, and process data… it’s just a matter of knowing what is possible…

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message 9: by Tonari no Emily (new)

Mar 10, 2022 03:39PM

Iain, do you mind if I make a copy of the spreadsheet to edit for my own tracking?

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message 10: by Tonari no Emily (new)

Mar 17, 2022 12:57AM