User preferences

[stepps]

First off, hi! I'm so please people are posting to the comm!

Now, I was just updating my profile, as per sophinisba's suggestion, and I stumbled into the user preferences page. It's got all the normal preferences you'd expect to see (comment notifications, display settings, time zone etc), but right down the bottom I found a feature that I did not know existed.

Format the titles on your works and series

This is awesome! I have a system when I bookmark on delicious.com; a system developed over years of trial and error and evolution through growing fandomly. The default page title is TITLE - AUTHOR - FANDOM, but I prefer AUTHOR - TITLE - FANDOM. So now I can impose that on my works. Not just that, this setting allows you to impose the title format on all works on the Archive. This means for me that bookmarking to delicious just became 100% easier because I no longer have to rewrite the whole page title to fit my system!

See, it's the little things that make AO3 awesome :D

Comments

[elf]

This is also the filename option for saving as ebooks. The metadata will be the same no matter what (they'll show up with the author & title properly in an ebook reader) but the actual filename is based on the viewing preferences.

I like FANDOM-AUTHOR-TITLE for ebooks; that groups them nicely in my reader.

[stepps]

Oh cool, I haven't downloaded any ebooks since I discovered the setting, so I wouldn't have noticed the change. Good to know that one can change the filename though.

[turlough]

I did exactly the same thing last night, updated my profile which lead to the discovery of this new preference setting! I only wish it recognised colon and paranthesis as demarkation signs. It would be so much neater if it would display as AUTHOR: TITLE (FANDOM) - it's still pretty awesome though.