Keeping Track....

...of comments.

**Update**

Wow, from the comments, it would seem a lot of people just use their memory. This really surprises me; I sometimes comment on 15 posts per day, I guess I have a wide circle. There is no way I could remember, and leaving tabs open or bookmarking, or even subscribing to commment-feeds would be too...cluttery.

I have used Co.Comment, Commentful, and Co.mments.

I was really happy with Blogflux's Commentful for a long time. All you do is install it and then right-click a post and click add to Commentful to begin tracking it. I loved the indicator that sits in my Firefox and lets me know when there were new comments on a post I was tracking. I just click the indicator and it takes me to the Commentful page, showing me which posts have new comments. But about two months ago I realized it was no longer updating accurately and I was missing some conversations, unless I went back every day and updated each post manually. Also, this client requires me to visit each post manually to see the new comments. Commentful does have a feed, but it only lists which posts have new comments, not the actual comments themselves, and seemed to always be substantially delayed (almost a day).

So I decided a backup plan was in order, and I installed Co.mments. Co.mments has a toolbar button with a little piece of java. Click the button for any post you want to track. I like that the Co.mments page shows me all the comments for each post I'm tracking, rather than having to visit each post. I like the feed, because it shows each new comment, not just the posts. But again, the feed is pretty slow, so I might not see a new comment for many hours.

I have tried Co.comment on several occasions, but honestly it's completely bloated with features, not to mention it did some really wacky things with my browser, like blocking videos on CNN. I haven't tried it now for some time, maybe they have fixed it, but I'm hesitant to try.

So there you have it. I was hoping someone would have a suggestion I haven't tried yet, but I suppose I will just have to experiment with bookmarking and comment-feeds. Thanks for all the comments, maybe I'm just an anomaly in the blog world, but I really like to keep track, and hate to forget to re-visit a post where I'm interested in following the conversation.



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I have posed this question before, a long time ago, and thought I had a solution...but am suffering in frustration again and looking for suggestions. I am using not one but TWO comment tracking clients, and they still fail me about half the time.

How do you keep track of posts you have commented on? Do you just bookmark the pages? Subscribe by e-mail? Use a client like Co.comment, Commentful or Co.mments? Subscribe to comment-feeds?

So if I've ever seemed to leave a drive-by comment on a post where I should have followed up, this is why. I'm sorry. It's not because I'm ignoring you.