To import, or not to import?

[eleanorjane]

So, DW lets you import old journal entries, icons, and comments from other journalling services using the common codebase - LJ, IJ, et cetera. I'm debating whether or not to do that - moreso from my previous fandom journal than my regular LJ. I think I've decided against it, because:

a) it would ruin my 'fresh start on dreamwidth!' thing, both symbolically and literally (by cluttering up my journal page).
b) it would highlight just how unproductive and sporadic I have been, and how often I've said "I'm doin' it this time, I really am!". I'd rather not immortalise that any further. ;-)

So I think I'll just leave it be.

On another subject, it looks like I'm going to have to abandon my much-loved xJournal app, as it doesn't have any options for adding non-LJ accounts - although the maintainer is working on adding support for non-LJ accounts. I shall turn to iJournal in the meantime, but I remember not being a huge fan of it last time I tried it.

Admittedly that was donkey's years ago, though.

Comments

[musesfool]

Yeah, I don't think I'm going to import my whole LJ. I might repost my SPN stories, but that's about it. I feel like there's no real need to have it all here because I'm not deleting it from there.

[eleanorjane]

Yeah, that's pretty much my feeling.

Also, I - well, I can't think of how to put this without sounding a bit wanky, but I like the sense of history visible in being able to see 'oh, I was posting here then, and then I moved there later'. Obviously I can see why some people are happy to pick up lock stock and barrel, and I _certainly_ see the value of importing entries from an archival perspective (particularly to centralise resources like fanworks, shared icons, et cetera), but I don't really need to do that myself.