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Old 09-17-2025, 04:31 PM   #11259
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Also, I've been moving my storyUrl sections to a custom longtext column (#fanficsettings) to declutter my personal.ini. Most of them are finished/hiatused stories anyways so I can just copy it in when needed.

This made me wonder if it'd be possible to add feature to read the storyUrl sections from the column directly. Probably not worth it to implement, considering that I'm the first to ask and possibly the only one who'd use it.
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Possible? Yes. Likely? No. I've considered that before, but I don't think the added complexity and added troubleshooting issues are worth it.
If anyone's interested, I posted in Action Chains Resources a chain which can help with this:

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Here's my enhanced version of the chain that additionally also copies story-specific settings from a column. This allows me to reduce the size of personal.ini by removing settings for completed stories while still keeping them available if I later need them.

to use, create a long-text column (interpret type: plain text) with lookup name #fanficsettings.

As I suggest editing settings in the personal.ini editor rather than the column itself, I also included Calibre ID in the commented header to make it easier to locate the book the section's associated with. An example from my library:

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## stillwaters01 - There Were Days (8382)
[https://archiveofourown.org/works/959950]
exclude_notes:chaptersummary
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