Searching one's journal?

[nancylebov]

Ordinary googling used to work pretty well for finding LJ/DW articles, but it doesn't any more. Sometimes (even starting with url: doesn't help much) it will give a few articles, but it ignores keywords from subject lines and sometimes only gives the url for the journal rather than for a particular article it cites.

Any suggestions?

Comments

[andrewducker]

http://sourceforge.net/projects/ljarchive/

This will archive your entire journal, and you can then do local searches with it.

[green_knight]

I've excempted my journal from Google searches, but one thing I find useful is to tag extensively - that makes it much easier to locate posts.

[reddragdiva]

I have found that Google has never managed to search my LJ properly - which has been most frustrating when trying to find something - but suddenly has no problem finding stuff now I've imported it all to DW.

How's Google do on random sentences from old entries?

[bondo-ba.livejournal.com]

I actually had the same problem. In the end, I found a site that allows you to turn your whole LJ into a PDF file, and use that document to search. It's quick once you do the conversion. link: http://www.ljbook.com/

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Exactly what I was going to say. I back my LJ up annually to PDF.

[terriwells.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool idea! I just started my journal last month. Maybe I ought to do that at the end of this year.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

I start out with mad tagging in the first place.

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

I use ljArchive (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ljarchive/). Same general idea as ljbook, mentioned above, but you can update rather than creating an entire new file. (I update at least once a week.)

[dmk.livejournal.com]

This. It's a great way to have access to your entire LJ, including comments.

[carbonel]

Me, too. Doesn't work for communities, but it's great for my personal LJ. (Don't know if it works with DW, either.)

I love the fact that it archives comments -- that's a configurable feature, so you don't have to if you don't want to.

[thespian.livejournal.com]

this is also what I popped in here to mention.

[cellio]

Also, it means you don't give your LJ password to a third party. Even if you don't care about the risk to your own entries, remember that that password grants access to journal entries from bunches of other people too.

[caprine.livejournal.com]

Very useful info -- thanks, everyone!