Some might be wondering how text messages on TxtBuff are published. During the first three months, I was only getting a few messages from the contributors and sometimes, I don’t even get any. So it was still easy to publish a text message right after receiving it. But after a few more months, the number of contributions has increased, so much, that I already find it hard to publish all of them at the same time. Sometimes, two or more senders send the same text message. Some senders send the same text message twice. Some even send advertisements. So I already felt the need to arrange and organize by eliminating duplicates, deleting advertisements and putting them into folders.

Currently, I have 8 folders on my phone, specially dedicated for TxtBuff text messages. Each folder has a purpose and will be revealed one by one as you read along.

Let us say I received 22 text messages on my phone today. I will put the first 8 messages into the For Review folder and the remaining 14 on the To Follow folder.

Received 22 text messages today:
To Follow - 14 text messages for review tomorrow
For Review - 8 text messages for review today

Text messages on the For Review folder will be checked against existing text messages on TxtBuff website to avoid duplicates. After checking, these 8 reviewed text messages will be transferred to a new folder named To Post Jan 27. Text messages on this folder will be published on Jan 27 and will be deleted afterwards.

To Post Jan 27 - 8 reviewed text messages
To Follow - 14 text messages
For Review - no text messages for review

The following day, I received another 25. I will transfer these text messages to the To Follow folder. Combining text messages from yesterday and today will give us a total of 39 To Follow text messages. From these 39, I only need to get the 8 messages to be transferred to the For Review folder.

Received 25 text messages today:
To Follow - 31 text messages (14 from yesterday and 25 today, minus 8 for review)
For Review - 8 text messages for review

Again, text messages on the For Review folder will be checked against existing text messages on TxtBuff. After checking, these 8 reviewed text messages will be transferred to a new folder named To Post Jan 28. Text messages on this folder will be published on Jan 28 and will be deleted afterwards.

To Follow - 31 text messages
For Review - no text messages for review
To Post Jan 28 - 8 reviewed text messages

The process then goes on and on. As I do this everyday, you will notice that text messages in the To Follow folder keep piling up. This means it will be harder for me to scroll down to the bottom to get older text messages since, they are arranged in reverse chronological order. To avoid this, I keep up to 350 messages at most (per folder), then store upcoming text messages on a new folder, To Follow 2.

To Follow2 - 12 text messages (this where I put new text messages)
To Follow1 - 342 text messages (this is where I get messages for review)
For Review - no text messages for review
To Post Jan 29 - 8 reviewed text messages

Sometimes I review text messages in advance, if I have time. Right now, I have 8 folders on my phone as I mentioned earlier, and these are:

To Follow4 - 191 text messages (I put all new text messages here)
To Follow3 - 350 text messages
To Follow2 - 350 text messages
To Follow1 - 328 text messages (this is where I get messages for review)
For Review - no text messages for review
To Post Feb 1 - 8 reviewed text messages
To Post Feb 2 - 8 reviewed text messages
To Post Feb 3 - 8 reviewed text messages

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