Delicious now has a place among my most valuable tools.
I spent a few minutes with "inSuggest" and quickly added bookmarks I want for my weather blog on WordPress. Also I used the filter to see what my tags of local interest would find. I had spent time creating tags with underscores (ex. Little_Marais) only to find that the filter broke them into individual words (little and marais).
http://bookmarks.insuggest.com/
The Delicious Tag icon (adjacent to the left side of the Firefox address window) dialogue box is useful for assigning popular tags used by others. "Weather" is common; "WX" is useful to me personally. One problem, however, is the text color within the Tag dialogue box is the same as the background color; you can't see the Title or anything you type. The list of popular tags has text in bright blue, so you can get the job done.
"popacular" is useful for finding new resources, like filtering what's hot from what's not hot.
http://popacular.com/
Delicious Bookmarks sidebar, like gmail, provides a different context for doing work I've always done with a tree structure. What would I do without the traditional Firefox Bookmarks menu?
I spent several hours working through the bookmarks I imported to Delicious; 43 screens of bookmarks, many items duplicated. I worked through 15 screensful, and will get back to it later.
I'll add more to this post as I read through the rest of the DO items.
2 comments:
It's nice to know that you can eliminate the duplicates with a little sweat equity, isn't it? Fifteen screens full must have take quite a bit of time. You're a glutton for punishment.
Then I read "Several Habits of Wildly Successful del.icio.us Users", and learned how to clean up and simplify tags through the Delicious settings screen. Also made a badge to display in the footer of my blog.
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