Drafting/Scheduling Posts in DW Using Post by Email

[shy_magpie]

potofsoup has a good post on how to use
post by email in Dreamwidth. With this function and either just setting a
reminder to your self to hit send or getting a email scheduler add on like
"post it later", you have a decent way to draft or schedule posts for
Dreamwidth. Only downside is I have heard from a couple people that the
line breaks/formatting can be a little weird.

Comments

[shy_magpie]

as shown on this post I emailed in, it seems to add line breaks to make the post match how it appears in my "compose email" window which has fewer characters per row than my journal. I tried adding paragraph tags to indicate I was using HTML formatting not rich text but it didn't work. Bother! Its a start, and even if it turns spaces into line breaks I can edit once it posts. Beats forgetting Fan Fic Friday!

[shipperslist]

...I just ended up posting (fandom meme) posts as private, with a title that said it's a private draft and with the posting date in the future. I mean, it's clumsy and it clutters my front page but it was the only way that made sense to me. I still have to (and I want to) edit the posts before I turn them public but for now, I have 12 drafts as private posts waiting for me.