favorite AO3 tools

seepunkrun:

flamebyrd:

seepunkrun:

Userscripts:

I use these with Greasemonkey in Firefox, but other
browsers have their own monkey-based extensions for userscripts.

AO3
Kudos/Hits Ratio — Min’s script does the math for you so you can see how popular a work is with its readers. Shown as a percentage, the ratio is useful as
long as you’re aware of its shortcomings. For instance, chaptered wips are
always going to have a really low kudos/hit ratio just because a reader can only
leave kudos once but usually visits a story multiple times, driving up the
hit count. And of course it doesn’t take comments into account.

Incomplete Work
Script — Makes it more obvious a work is in progress by greying out the text and changing the transparency of the blurb. Works on index pages as well as on the work itself. Never again Rarely get to the end of a story and experience that sinking realization that it’s not finished! This is by @flamebyrd​, who makes a
lot of the tools I use.

Download
Buttons — Want to download a lot of stuff in a hurry? tuff_ghost’s script
adds a download button next to each work on an index page. So go ahead and download
the top ten coffee shop AUs without ever leaving the page. Works on series
pages, too.

Floaty
Review Box, Chapter Shortcut & Kudos Sortable Bookmarks — @ravenel​’s
script does lots of good things. The floaty review box makes commenting easier, just highlight favorite lines, hit “insert” and the magic box copies them to the comment box for later. The last chapter shortcut
is helpful if a wip has just been updated and you want to skip straight to the
latest chapter. And, as if that weren’t enough, it also lets you sort your
bookmarks by kudos. If you can, check out the Tumblr post for a gif-based
tutorial. If you can’t, get the
userscript directly from pastebin.

Other Helpful Tools:

Hide
Empty Paragraphs — A bookmarklet that removes extra blank lines from some
AO3 works. This is also from Flamebyrd; check out their site for more cool
stuff: Flamebyrd’s AO3
Bookmarklets and Scripts.

Filter Me, AO3 — You simply cannot
with the AO3’s complicated filtering system? This blog will filter shit for
you. Just send @filter-me-ao3​ an ask and they’ll post a link curated to your exact
preferences, probably. Terms and conditions may apply.

AO3 Series
Downloader — This baby by @stillwinds requires Java and as such is not my
thing, but if you’re interested in messing around with command lines, it will
download an entire series into a single epub file for you. Or, if
you use Chrome, there’s a browser extension.

And, finally, the AO3
has its own list of Unofficial
Browser Tools, and most of these are on it, but there’s lots of stuff I
didn’t mention, so go dig around if you’re looking for tools
to help you post to the archive from Gdocs, or tools
to help you manage challenges you’re running, or tools
to filter out unwanted content. And if you know of something that’s not on
the list, send support a
tip.

Thanks for the tag! There’s a heap of really useful things here, this is great.

You reminded me of the Incomplete Works script’s existence, so I finally made it a page on my site (and tweaked it a teensy tiny bit). Glad you’re finding it helpful 😀

It’s so nice to just glance at a story and be able to tell if it’s a wip! I don’t know what I’d do without it. Be a lot angrier, probably.

Everyone, here’s a more official description of the Incomplete Works script:
By default, fades out works on works listings, and displays the work stats (wordcount, chapters, etc) in red on single works.