#but finding/applying little life tweaks that kill at least 2 but SOMETIMES MORE metaphorical birds @ a time has become a game 2 me

[madameocotillo]

I've come to notice a major, personal benefit from using a basic tagging system, not only for my original posts, but to the posts I reblog as well

This might seem like a "baby discovers object permanence" level discovery to some, but it helped me solve a major headache on Tumblr.com/themobileapp; You know how sometimes you come across a really thought-provoking opinion in a reblog chain, or flash fiction that makes you contemplate the nature of humanity, or a piece of IRL news that you know your parent is not ready for yet but maybe someday?

So you do the instant reblog because this doom ain't gonna scroll itself, then time passes, and the day comes when you have need for That One Post, but uh-oh! You have no RELIABLE way of finding it again, and are haunted by the one time you spent 15 minutes at a party frantically googling increasingly desperate word combinations to try to dredge up a joke image that would have been SO FUNNY if you had actually managed to find it? But you didn't, and so it wasn't, and you won't be making that social misstep again?

Your opportunity to feel like the Sovereign of Tumblr References (also other benefits) is WITHIN YOUR GRASP, and it is called "Pick a few words that apply to broad groupings of things you reblog, take the extra 5 seconds on mobile to manually reblog, and apply the relevant word as a tag." An example is that I use "IRL" for posts that deal with news/current events, because it's easy for me AND (I hope) intuitive for others that might want to either dive-deeper OR block the tag and free their dash! Do NOT get clever do NOT use complicated puns YES the tag you use for queued posts is very funny but Do Not Try That Hard here; the goal is to make your system as simple as possible so that it is quick and easy to use FOR U, your life's main character.

Of course this method is not fool-proof because (say it with me folks),"Tumblr's search function sucks big time," BUT there is a real peace of mind gained from not feeling pressured to immediately screenshot/save links from (and then later organize files) any interesting post, or risk loosing it to the Tumblr Search Void(TSV).

In any case, starting to play around with your own individual tagging system is Easy & Free, has Many Benefits, and is probably a good practice to have in these ongoing Unprecedented Times, but also like. You do you or whatevs i'm not your mom end rant