Little changes can really boost the quality of everyday life, reducing mouse clicks, saving time, getting things done. One such small change I made that had that effect and made my world a happier place was adding a hyperlink to the new comment email notifications I receive from my blog.
You Community Server bloggers know what I'm talking about. You get an email saying there's a new comment, you read the comment and want to reply, so what do you do? You highlight the url (careful now..be sure to highlight the whole string!), then copy and paste it into the address bar of your browser. Uuuagh.
The format of Community Server emails are based on their particular template found in \languages\[language]\emails\emails.xml. Because emails.xml is an XML file, it will recognize < > as XML tags and not HTML tags, so brackets have to be encoded in emails.xml to show up within the template. < and >
Now instead of painfully highlighting the entire url permalink of the comment and pasting it into my browser address bar, I click the mouse. Once. Quality of Life Booster? YOU be the judge.
Here's the
New Feedback Notification Section of my emails.xml if you, too, could use a little QOL boost.
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