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[ocelot]

Does anyone know of a tool (linux or cross-platform) that allows for more powerful friends group management?

I need to reorganize my friends list so that I have, for example, two mutually exclusive lists of people. There is no simple way to do this through LJ's interface - I'd have to go and make list one, and then list two separately using the same original pool of names, with no way of viewing who is on list one while creating list two, leading to the possibility of overlap or exclusion.

This should be really easy. You take the list, take out the names for list one, and you're left with list two. But LJ has no simple way to do this that I can tell.

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[ourgosling.livejournal.com]

Honestly, I would go low-tech on that - a pain I know but okay in a pinch in case you can't find what you need.

I'd go to my user info page, cnp my list of friends, paste it into a word doc, print and sit down with a highlighter crossing out names as you allocate them in the LJ interface.

If you only have to do it once, might be easier than trying to find/use a new interface, unless of course you have 500 friends!

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[unixronin.livejournal.com]

LogJam's friend list management works pretty well, but would still require you to do the cross-checking. What I might do is something like:

- open two LogJam sessions
- log both in and go to the friend groups windows
- create one new group in each
- go down the list of friends in order, adding each to the appropriate group in one window and skipping it in the other

As a check, you can then compare the two groups side-by-side and make sure you have no duplicates.

[jabberwokky.livejournal.com]

I did it. I have no idea with what, but I recall doing so with a GUI tool. Possibly logjam (as noted above), but I don't think so. I know I played around with kluje, but it doesn't appear from the website to be what I used.

I know it's not tremendously helpful, but an "it can be done, and I used a Linux client", is at least some information.