Changing a routine
Today was the first day in almost a year that I didn’t head on over to Craigslist to look for apartments in Mountain View. Details tomorrow.
Update: In the comments, Daniel Jalkut pointed out that Craigslist supports RSS for every search. Cool! I’d never scrolled down to the bottom of a search page, I guess, since that’s where the link is. I guess the next time I do something like this I won’t have to go to their web site every day.
Daniel Jalkut Said,
April 17, 2007 @ 7:09 am
Looking forward to the cause of the routine change, but for this kind of repetitive Craigslist use I always like to point out the subtle “RSS” link in the lower right corner of any search results page. It seems people always miss this, but it makes the “want to keep up on all such listings” process really easy.
Eric Said,
April 17, 2007 @ 8:55 am
Huh…I never would’ve noticed that. I never scrolled down to the bottom. Thanks for the tip!
Daniel Jalkut Said,
April 17, 2007 @ 9:07 am
I only bothered commenting because I’ve learned that very few people notice it
It’s an especially powerful trick when you’re oh, like a consultant or something, and want to be the first to respond to the rarely posted Mac gigs!
Scott Kovatch Said,
April 17, 2007 @ 10:59 am
The best part of the RSS feature is that there are so few 3+ bedroom listings that are cat-friendly that it can be depressing to wade through the web site. It gives me hope of finding something suitable for us this summer.
Nadyne Mielke Said,
April 17, 2007 @ 1:40 pm
Sadly, living in Mountain View means that you get a lot of hits for locales that have mountain views (Tahoe, Milpitas, South San Francisco, … ) and not the city of Mountain View.