How To CA: Custom Activity Streams, Bookmarks and More

Thanks Chris! I really like the new Around the Industry feature.

Just now, tmtomh said:

Thanks Chris! I really like the new Around the Industry feature.

Thanks for the kind words. 

How I can stop getting around the industry into unread content list? Thank you.

38 minutes ago, AnotherSpin said:

How I can stop getting around the industry into unread content list? Thank you.

 

Not a full solution, but if you go into the first page of the category you can "mark forum as read"; then if your display is for "unread" content it won't appear.

2 hours ago, firedog said:

Not a full solution, but if you go into the first page of the category you can "mark forum as read"; then if your display is for "unread" content it won't appear.

Thank you. This is what I am doing, but, everytime I open forum I see my carefully selected topics to check flooded with industry news again. I tried to ignore the poster account, but it comes anyway, only headlines without content. I understand many people just love these news, however I would appreciate the opportunity to customize the bookmarked tab content. I am trying to create custom stream now, let's see how it works.

6 hours ago, AnotherSpin said:

 

Thank you. This is what I am doing, but, everytime I open forum I see my carefully selected topics to check flooded with industry news again. I tried to ignore the poster account, but it comes anyway, only headlines without content. I understand many people just love these news, however I would appreciate the opportunity to customize the bookmarked tab content. I am trying to create custom stream now, let's see how it works.

You can also click the name of your feed on the home page (mine is "new content unread", see below) and edit what it displays. Just don't include the Industry news and it won't appear .

6 hours ago, AnotherSpin said:

 

Thank you. This is what I am doing, but, everytime I open forum I see my carefully selected topics to check flooded with industry news again. I tried to ignore the poster account, but it comes anyway, only headlines without content. I understand many people just love these news, however I would appreciate the opportunity to customize the bookmarked tab content. I am trying to create custom stream now, let's see how it works.

Let me know if you need help. 

22 minutes ago, The Computer Audiophile said:

 

Let me know if you need help. 

I created "My stream" slightly edited, will compare it with default unread stream to be sure nothing from what I want to keep was missed. Thank you. 

Thanks Chris! Instruction videos were very helpful and Around the Industry forum is an excellent idea.

With Chris's help I found a super convenient way to keep track of all my subscribed topics. Creating custom stream made it convenient. I found four settings particularly helpful, and here is a picture of those setting. I encourage everyone who uses the subscribe function to make their own custom stream and try these settings.

In the instruction video Chris says that choosing your custom stream as default makes "a shortcut" under Activity-tab. Well, it didn't really work that way. Choosing default actually does make a shortcut, but to different location. I'll put a picture here that shows the location.

I am very happy about this shortcut feature. It makes entering custom stream and following subscribed topics so convenient.

Thanks for all the help Chris. I would not have got the settings right without your help.

One more thing about the shortcut. If you use tablet or phone the shortcut comes to the very top of the page. Super convenient!

Not directly related, but... is there any practical difference between "like" and "upvote" for a post?