Here’s our second DailyLit Tip to make reading your installments even easier. (Missed #1? Read it here.)
Since your DailyLit installments come into your regular email inbox, they can get mixed up and sometimes lost with all of your other messages. It can be difficult to find your DailyLit installments if, say, you were busy when one day’s installment is delivered, or if you like to refer to the previous day’s reading before opening the newest installment. And, as I mentioned in our first tip, we like our DailyLit to be easy. So, one easy way to manage your subscriptions is to copy all of your installments into a folder. You can create a folder for all of your emails from DailyLit, or even a separate folder for each book.
But it can get even easier than that. In Outlook and other similar email clients, you can set up a rule so that incoming messages from DailyLit are automatically directed to your DailyLit or book folder. Here’s how to set it up:
In Outlook go to “File,” then “New,” then “Folder,” and create a new “Personal Folder” for your DailyLit emails.
Then, go to “Tools” and “Rules and Alerts” and create a new rule.
Select “Move messages from a person to a folder” (or “Move messages with specific words in the subject to a folder” for individual book folders), and click “Next.”
Make sure the conditions you want are selected, then click on the words “People or distribution list” to fill in “books@dailylit.com” (or “specific words” to fill in the book title for individual book folders) and click on “Specified” to add your DailyLit folder. Click “next.”
You’ll see more options for your DailyLit emails (like marking them all as “of importance”). Choose your options, then click “next.”
Here you can select different exceptions to your rule. Select any exceptions you’d like to apply, and, again, click “next.”
Finally, name your rule and activate it on the final screen, and you’re good to go—all of your DailyLit emails will go to one, easy-to-manage place.
If you have any trouble getting your folders set up email us at support [at] dailylit [dot] com. We’re happy to help.
Stay tuned for tip #3!
Have a tip of your own? Send it to support [at] dailylit [dot] com.
This is the first in a series of DailyLit tips we’re planning to share with you. They’re things we do to make reading our DailyLit installments easier and more convenient. Because easier is better, right? (Especially in August, when it’s hot, and it seems like everyone’s on vacation except for me. It’s like the path of least resistance is the only one that’s air-conditioned.)
Tip #1: Use “More All” on your BlackBerry
If you read your DailyLit on your BlackBerry, you may already know that it only downloads the very beginning of emails when you open them, and gets the rest when reading. For that to happen, the BlackBerry must have network access, and in places like the subway, that may not be possible. If you’d like to read during your commute, before you go underground you should go to your installment and open it, then press the menu button and select “More All.” This causes the BlackBerry to download the rest of the message and mark it as unread again.
So, you can read 100 Ways to Succeed/Make Money while you’re on the 1, or the 6, or whatever number gets you where you need to go. (And if it’s not taking you on vacation too, I hope it’s at least air conditioned.)
Look for more tips coming soon!
Have a tip to share? Email it to us at support [at] dailylit [dot] com.
Books are cool, but free books are even better. (We should know—we now offer over 700 books gratis.)
That’s why we’re so excited to announce the launch of our sponsorship program, which will allow contemporary works to be made available for free on DailyLit. The first book in the program, College Knowledge: 101 Tips, has been sponsored by GalleryCollection.com. Support was also provided by the University of Michigan Press, who originally published the book.
College Knowledge: 101 Tips offers anecdotal tips, advice, and insight for students on how to successfully transition into their first year of college. It will be free until September 30th, 2008—so get cracking! It may still be hot outside, but school bells will be ringing before you know it (don’t they always?). This time, you (or the college-bound kid you know) can be prepared.
One is the loneliest number, but books have often provided company to solo fliers. And while it’s true that one can find amusement finding out, say, how one becomes a Skinny Bitch, where do you turn to connect with other fans of the fellow at 221B Baker Street, or–if your party of one left you feeling a little too lonely–discuss the finer points of Mr. Darcy’s allure?
Fret not, dear readers–DailyLit has got you covered. From our forums to our recent introduction of ratings and reviews, we have been working hard to make reading more social. Today, we took another step with the introduction of the Members page, which brings together the newest and most active faces in our community. Find out what people are reading and what they have to say about it by clicking on their profile. You might find some kindred spirits to chat with in the forums about what not to do on safari, or the bombshell that drops in installment 60 of The Scarlet Pimpernel.
Not a member? Feeling a little left out? Get thee to the registration page and join up.
We’re adding new titles to DailyLit all the time. Wondering what you could be missing?
You can stay in the know about what’s new on DailyLit using RSS feeds. We have a feed that includes every title we add to the site, and we also have a separate RSS feed for each of our categories, if you’d prefer your new-title news to be genre-specific. And, we recently started including the description of each new book and a link to the first installment right in the new-title feeds themselves. This is a great way to catch interesting titles as they’re added to the site.
To get started, look for the link to the RSS feed at the bottom of any Category page. For the all-books feed, click on the RSS icon at the bottom of this page.
If you aren’t familiar with RSS or readers/aggregators, you can check out this CommonCraft video:
Personally, I use Bloglines to read RSS feeds. GoogleReader is another popular choice. The good news is that both are websites so you don’t have to download anything to start using either reader.