Noticing Newbies: November 16, 2022 Issue [#11665]
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 This week: Portfolio Features
  Edited by: Jeff Author IconMail Icon
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Table of Contents

1. About this Newsletter
2. A Word from our Sponsor
3. Letter from the Editor
4. Editor's Picks
5. A Word from Writing.Com
6. Ask & Answer
7. Removal instructions

About This Newsletter


"You never know what you can do until you try,
and very few try unless they have to."

-- C.S. Lewis


About The Editor: Greetings! My name is Jeff Author Icon and I'm one of your regular editors for the Noticing Newbies Official Newsletter! I've been a member of Writing.com since 2003, and have edited more than 350 newsletters across the site during that time. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me via email or the handy feedback field at the bottom of this newsletter! *Smile*


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Letter from the editor


Portfolio Features


Writing.com offers a lot of features when it comes to creating items, but did you know that there's a bunch of features for your portfolio too? Most of us are familiar with our bio block, highlighted items, the reviews and biography tabs, our notebook, the ability to link a blog and all of our community stats. If you've ever decided to undertake the task of organizing your port, you're probably familiar with the drag/drop organizer or the ability to select multiple items at once and move them to a subfolder. If you've been around a really long time, you might even remember sliders. *Bigsmile*

But there are also a handful of lesser-known tools that can be immensely helpful in a variety of ways. Let's take a look at a few of those features this week.

Stats & Info. At the very top of your portfolio, right under the tabs, is a Stats & Info link. Clicking on that link will expand an area that will give you the public URL for your portfolio, as well as a number of other useful links including Go to Stats which will tell you views and ratings information about recently accessed items, and your portfolio size (i.e., how many items you've created out of the total number of items your portfolio can hold based on your membership level). Next to your portfolio size is a very handy link called Show Item Summary which will tell you how many of each type of item you've created and, if you click on the item type, will give you a list of links to all items of that type you've created. This can be very helpful for limited-number items (like Books or Interactive Stories), to either determine how many you have left to create, or where to free up space if you need to replace an old one.

Transfer an Item. If you need to transfer an item to another member (for example, maybe you created a group or a contest that you don't have time to run anymore and someone else is willing and has agreed to take it over), you can click on Portfolio > Transfer an Item from the left-hand navigation column and, for a small fee, transfer items from your portfolio to another user's portfolio.

Passkey Editor. If you want to check on which items have passkeys set, you can use the left-hand navigation column to click on Portfolio > Manage Passkeys and it'll take you to a page where all of your items with passkeys are listed, and where you can update any/all of them at the same time. If you need to quickly change the passkeys to your private items, this is a great, quick way to make sure you've managed all your passkeys responsibly and haven't, for example, used the same passkey on multiple items if you don't want the same people accessing them. *Smile*

Portfolio Highlighting. Did you know you can highlight items in your port for easier tracking? Click on Portfolio > Manage Portfolio Highlighting from the left-hand navigation column and you can set items to carry different highlight colors that only you can see. This can be an excellent way to organize similar items (you can highlight by access restriction, genre, title/description, etc.) that you don't want to necessarily create a separate folder for.

Auto-Rewards, Edit Points, and Item Aliases. just like with the Manage Passkeys feature, you can also manage your various Auto-Rewards and Edit Points and Item Aliases all from the same convenient location by going to... yep, you guessed it... Portfolio > Manage from the left-column navigation menu.

Item Edit Logs. Did you know Writing.com keeps edit logs of all your items so you can go back and restore prior versions? This is really helpful if you need to go back to an old version of a story or poem, or even a contest or activity if you need something from a past iteration. Portfolio > Item Edit Logs will take you to a screen with all of your recently edited items and allow you to pull up the edit logs for any one of them.

Export Portfolio Items. While it's always recommended that you back up your items offsite as a general best practice, if you ever find yourself short or portfolio space and/or needing to purge some old items without deleting them entirely, you can first export your portfolio items in the form of HTML or plain text (with or without WritingML coding), and you can export it as a copy/paste, text file, or ZIP file. This can be very useful when you want to clean out your port or, if you ever decide to close your Writing.com account to transfer your portfolio of writing offsite in a way that preserves everything you've created here.


One of the things I like best about Writing.com is that there are all kinds of features and settings that you can take advantage of, if you know where to look. The StoryMaster Author Icon has done a great job building a number of helpful tools for the site over the years, and it never hurts to familiarize yourself with some of the amazing things you can do here in terms of analyzing your data and managing your work.

Until next time,

Jeff Author IconMail Icon
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Editor's Picks


This month's official Writing.com writing contest is:

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Journey Through Genres: Official Contest Open in new Window. [E]
Write a short story in the given genre to win big prizes!
by Writing.Com Support Author Icon



I also encourage you to check out the following items:


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NaNoWriMo Write-A-Thon Open in new Window. [ASR]
A NaNoWriMo fundraiser... compete as a NaNo writer or donate by sponsoring one!
by Jeff Author Icon




 The Runaway Open in new Window. [13+]
A fantasy Flash fiction of love, death and the start of an adventure.
by Obasi Naomi Author Icon

EXCERPT: The road was dark. The night sky covered the earth, and the bright moon proudly shone on it. He had been walking; for how long, he didn't know.

All he knew, was that he had to get away fast.




 Invalid Item Open in new Window. []

by A Guest Visitor

EXCERPT: In the dead of winter, Isobe Teruko remembers waking up in the middle of the night thinking, "That enormous dog is back on the roof again." The space between the bedroom's two windows had a small gap in it, so the only thing Isobe Teruko could see through it was a very small fraction of the outside world.



 A Helping Hand Open in new Window. [ASR]
An Amusing Short Story About Altruism And Preconceptions Of Royal Navy Sailors
by matelot Author Icon

EXCERPT: The constant thump of the loud music being played by the DJ downstairs was competing with the multicoloured flashing lights and the large volume of alcohol I had drunk in a competition to see which could give me a bigger headache and I stood surveying the scene before me, thinking how the tackiness of the carpet seemed to be caught up in a similar competition with the tackiness of the décor.



 Faith...Healing of An Addict Open in new Window. [E]
This poem is about questioning why you're favored when you don't deserve...regaining faith
by depthwriter Author Icon




 A Grandfather so Kind Open in new Window. [E]
A poem about my OCD & Anxiety and how my grandfather is always there.
by Mejius J. Huxwell Author Icon


 
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Ask & Answer


Feedback from "Noticing Newbies Newsletter (October 19, 2022)Open in new Window. about NaNoWriMo options:


Angelica Weatherby- Grateful28 Author Icon writes:
Brilliant newsletter. I am toying with two ideas and have a third idea on hold. I am slow but hoping to complete one idea at least. You can do it and don't be discouraged if you fall behind. Slow and steady wins the race.


Elycia Lee ☮ Author Icon writes:
Thank you for the lovely newsletter, Jeff. It's a good reminder for us that NaNoWriMo can be more versatile and that we should make the writing work for us, not vice versa. *Heart*

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