How best to keep track of comps?

PinkPeach

Hi, I've been entering competitions on here for a while now and was wondering how you keep a track of where you get up to? I normally write down the last page number I was on but obviously the comps move as more are listed adn it can take me ages to find where I was the following day - by going checking my thanks.

I've tried using the drop down box at the bottom of the screen to search in ascending order and using the end date view button but neither of these seem to me, to be in order completely. For example using end date view the list starts with those ending in Jan but then pages later on list comps ending in June before those ending in July. Can anyone point out what I'm doing wrong or explain how this works?

sassi

TO SEARCH BY DATE ENDING

click the button and look through - they are in number order ie the 25th's will have 25th june july aug sept - as will the 26th 27th and so on
theres a comping guide that explains it all better than me, here

good luck xx

Humf_2

I write down the date and time of the post, it makes it much easier for me to find the last comp i entered

Hope this helps

sassi

oh and hit the thanks button when you enter a comp - then it thanks the poster for their efforts and you will know if you have thanked you have entered......

glacier

I've always wondered why titles aren't done as E: month/day (or even E: year/month/day).

I think then the sorting by title/ascending order would work much better.

Keeping your browser bookmarks organised is also useful, folders for e.g. monthly, daily, to-do etc

Amilucky?

Unfortunately I don't have much time now to do many comps and so I have changed the way that I enter

I now enter comps which are closing the following day and so use search by date ending see:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/...11&postcount=3

when I have found all of the comps which are closing the following day I make a note of the page numbers then using the Firefox Multi Links add on I then right click and select the small page numbers so that all of the the pages open in new tabs

now for the clever part I click on the first tab and by using control + - (minus) I shrink the competition page so that all of the comps are visible without the need to scroll I then go into Firefox's Tools,Add-ons, Multi Links options,actions and select save to bookmarks

now when I right click and select all of the comps instead of opening new tabs the comps are saved as bookmarks and put into a folder for later use I do this for each tabbed page

when all of the bookmarks have been saved you may find that you end up with multiple folders what I do is use Firefox's "Organize Bookmarks" found on the top menu bar Bookmarks, select each folder and click on a link and use control+A to select all of the links then drag and drop them into the first folder do this for each multiple folder so that all of the bookmarks are in one place

now if you select a link and use control+A at the bottom it will tell you how many bookmarks/comps that you have to enter

when the bookmarks are all together I select a link and by using a the combination of the Shift key and the downward arrow I highlight and select 40 bookmarks (don't try more than this as Firefox may become unstable and crash) and then right click and select "open all in tabs"

after you have finished doing the above go back into "organize bookmarks" and you will find that the bookmarks will be still highlighted now press delete and the selected bookmarks will be deleted ready for your next batch

I find that this is also a great method for doing the "month ending" comps as you can save them on a daily basis to a folder named "Month Ending" and them do them at your own leisure without any of the problems caused by the page numbers constantly changing (on the display options select sorted by "Thread Title" from the "Last Day" sort order "Descending"

one other tip if you decide to do the above install the Firefox add on "Bookmarks Duplicate Detector" and in the add on's options select "add confirmation before to add duplicate bookmark" now when you right click to add bookmarks with Multi Links you will get a pop up warning box when you try to a add a duplicated bookmark

I hope that this makes sense and is of use to someone

I have also posted the above in Comping Guide - Getting Started & Other FAQs for future reference #208

Best of Luck

Mrsd_2

Amilucky? Thank you so much for your post! Made a lot of sense and finally I can be more organise! I actually love you x

bec54

Hello

I subscribe to each thread that I've entered, but make sure I choose the option for 'no email updates' - this gives me a small tick next to all the comps I've entered when I look at any screen. I'm not sure if there's an upper limit of all the subscriptions you can have, but I'm up to about 5,500 so far with no problems.

I still make sure that I hit the thanks button as well though to give the correct credit where it's due for posters uploading the details.

Bec

dawnylou

I do the same as bec however I have folders entitled Jan 2010, Feb 2010 and so on and when I subscribe to the thread I put it in a folder so if the end date of the comp was 25/05 I would subscribe to it in my May 2010 folder. This then means I have an idea of how many competitions I have entered that end that month so I can see how many wins I'm getting in comparison really.
At the end of the year I delete all subscriptions and start over again Hope this makes sense to you?! lol

glodh1973

Hi i like the idea of subscribing to threads but i dont know how to ..

Gloria xxx

bunn

glodh1973 wrote: »

Hi i like the idea of subscribing to threads but i dont know how to ..

Gloria xxx

at the top of the page it says thread tools click and go to add subscrption and then it will add it and go back to the page you where viewin!

as for all the firefox buisness its sounds complicated,
i go to the page i left of say page 29, the n click on and open in new tab and have them out like that, perhaps thats why i dont win much!!