ah. stigmata.

Instead of doing the valuable, productive, adult activities I was supposed to do yesterday, I spent a good chunk of my time playing around with AO3 userscripts on Tampermonkey and squeeing in delight. Here are the ones I'm currently using.

To install these, get Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey on your internet browser. I use Firefox with Tampermonkey. Then navigate to each userscript's page, click install, and follow any other directions given to you by the userscript creator. It's very easy!

If none of these userscripts float your boat, here's the list of scripts that apply to AO3.

Userscripts I Have Installed

• Floating Comment Box: This one lets you comment while reading, or highlight quotes and automatically copy them into your comment, italicized for your convenience, so you can annotate.
• Browsing Notes: Not currently using this at the moment, but I still have it installed. It lets you make notes on the listings of fics, whether those be in your bookmarks, search results, history, etc. Saved locally.
• Rekudos Converter: Allows you to auto-post a comment (you can make the comment's text whatever you want) when you go to click "Kudos" a second (third, fourth, one-thousandth) time. I have my comment options set to things like "Loved this <3" and "Bonus kudos!"
• AO3 Savior: BLESS
• AO3 Savior Config: You need this one to make ao3 savior work
• Tracking: Lets you track different search query combinations, so you can check if there are any new works in MCU + AOU + HS AU + A/B/O + PWP (ew, can you imagine?) without having to type each tag out. The name makes me think it's going to track me evilly like all online websites these days, but it really is talking about tags and searches, I promise!
• Quality Score (Adjusted Kudos/Hits Ratio): I love this actually! It's a variation off of "ao3 kudos/hits ratio," another handy script, but "Quality Score" adjusts the kudos/hits ratio to be more fair to multichap works. Not always an indication of quality or how much you'll enjoy the work, of course, but handy at a glance for choosing what to read!
• Links to First and Last Chapter: Puts a little button that looks like music players' "skip" button" (>>) to get to the last chapter.
• Remove Leading Spaces in AO3: Haven't seen this in action yet but I'm excited! I personally detest seeing works formatted with huge spaces in between the lines, and am prone to closing out of the fic as soon as I see it. Hopefully this will help me get over my bias :D
• Estimated Reading Time: You put in your reading speed (mine's ~550 wpm apparently if I lowball it!) and it calculates the reading time. Useful for deciding if it's worth it to start a new 200ker now, or wait until morning, lol!
• Kudosed and Seen History: This one is the GOAT. It uses data AO3 already associates with your account (which works you have bookmarked and kudosed) and then visually flags those works for you, so you can tell at a glance if you've already made a b'mark or left a kudos! And it doesn't start fresh when you install it, so it shows your kudos and bookmarks from as long as your account has used those features! You may need to play around with the refresh settings if you have had your account for a long time, just be warned. But it's really an excellent tool. Another thing it lets you do is mark works as "seen" and/or "skipped". That minimizes the works in question so you can browse through a long list of fics without having to remember which ones you hated when you last read them!

TL;DR: My absolute go-tos are AO3 Savior and Kudosed and Seen History. Enjoy!