How This Archive Works

Dropping files in

This archive is built from a folder of files. Every file becomes a work. The folder it sits in becomes its fandom.

Put files in the shelf folder. It reads:

• Markdown (.md)
• plain text (.txt)
• saved web pages (.html)
• EPUB books (.epub)
• PDFs (.pdf)

Folders at the top of the shelf are fandoms. A file in shelf/Research Papers/ lands in the Research Papers fandom. A file sitting directly in shelf/ uses the site name from the page if it has one, otherwise Uncategorized Fandom.

Hidden files and anything starting with an underscore are skipped.

Chapters

Chapters come from the file's own structure:

• Markdown and web pages split at their headings, when there are at least two.
• Text files split at lines like CHAPTER I or IV. The Purple Wig.
• EPUBs use one chapter per section of the book.
• PDFs use their bookmarks (the outline in the sidebar of a PDF viewer).

A file with none of those is a one-shot.

Tags

The archive fills in the AO3 fields by itself:

• Characters are names that show up again and again, always capitalized.
• Additional Tags are words that are common in this work and rare in the rest of the shelf, plus length tags: Drabble (100 words or fewer), Ficlet (under 1,000), One Shot, Long Fic (50,000 and up).
• Rating is General Audiences and the warning is Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings, unless you say otherwise.

Changing what it says

Write a .meta file next to any file, with the same name plus .meta:

title: A Better Title
author: Someone, Someone Else
fandom: Research Papers
rating: Teen
tags: My Own Tag, Another Tag
characters: none
summary: One line about it.
published: 2024-05-01
url: https://example.com/where-it-came-from
complete: no

Every line is optional. Markdown and text files can put the same lines at the top between --- lines instead. A _folder.meta file sets defaults for everything in its folder.

Kudos and Mark for Later

Kudos, Mark for Later and hits are saved in your browser only. Nothing is sent anywhere, and nobody else sees them.

Saved from I Can't Believe It's Not AO3.