Comments on: del.icio.us vs. bookmarks

By: Todd Finley

Todd Finley — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 20:35:06 +0000

I use Spurls because I find the interface somewhat more intuitive and Del.ic.ious gets posted when I use it. Bookmarks have become a confused space for me. I’m starting to just put my favorite bookmarks on a widget/module in my Google Personal Homepage.

My whole organizational system is in flux, and I keep thinking that some magical technology will zoom in and make this all easier. This BlueOrganizer add-on from Firefox seems to have some potential, but is on the periphery of my consciousness and I mostly just look at it in my toolbar and hope it will manifest in instant GTD and grade all my students’ papers for me.

Mahalo,

tbf

By: Paul Watson

Paul Watson — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 11:09:36 +0000

Just happened to me too, how annoying. Back to the old extension I go.

By: mdediana

mdediana — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 12:34:17 +0000

I use del.icio.us as a repository to store links for future reference and the browser bookmarks for day-by-day tools, like home banking, webmail, URLs that point to my local computer (like programming documentation – javadocs), intranet, etc.

By: clofresh

clofresh — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 20:41:10 +0000

I only use bookmarks for my regular sites that don’t have good RSS feeds like gmail, facebook, yelp, for easy access via the bookmark bar. If it’s a site that I enjoy but only want to read when there’s new stuff, I’ll subscribe to it’s RSS feed. If it’s a really cool page, but a one hit wonder type that I might be interested in rereading maybe a year from now, I’ll bookmark it with del.icio.us, and sort through them via Quicksilver when I need to.

By: jason

jason — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:43:15 +0000

foxylicious may be nice, but ill make a case for another firefox plugin called foxmarks. I go into more detail here but essentially, there are just some things I prefer to have ‘on hand’ (in the browser) at any given time. and I dont want the limitations of time and space to get in the way. After years of toil and hardship, finally foxmarks saves the day by providing browser-based bookmark synchronization. yay!

By: arvind

arvind — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:45:05 +0000

check out flock: http://flock.com

firefox-based, with much better webservices integration

By: Sarah Houghton-Jan (Librarian in Black)

Sarah Houghton-Jan (Librarian in Black) — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:47:46 +0000

I think as more and more of us work on multiple computers regularly, some sort of auto-synch solution is going to have to happen…and my guess is it will be in Firefox, like all good happy things are. Some nice extension that would auto-synch only those folders you told it to synch would be swell–thus alleviating the “oh my gosh, my mom’s crafting page is now on my professional links list” moments (ok, that was one of the tamer examples).

By: Lindsey Kuper

Lindsey Kuper — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 10:50:23 +0000

Like a couple of commenters above, I keep a lot of private stuff in del.icio.us using the “do not share” option. You’re right, it does seem like a nonsensical use of a social bookmarks system, but maybe that’s not the only thing that del.icio.us is.

del.icio.us tags imported bookmarks with “imported” unless you tell it not to, and I was recently surprised to see that “imported” is one of the most popular tags. I guess that feature is pretty popular.

By: Zohar

Zohar — Sun, 29 Oct 2006 07:18:48 +0000

After checking the del.icio.us extension, I discovered that you can share some of the boomarks and keep some private. Has a rule, the Firefox bookarks are imported to del.icio.us as private, and than you can share them if you want. So, if privacy is your concern, you can still have it. I give it 4.2 stars.

By: Aristotle Pagaltzis

Aristotle Pagaltzis — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 22:44:43 +0000

I use the bookmark toolbar for stuff I use frequently or to backlog stuff for later reading, for further research, and such. Stuff I merely want to keep for later reference, or that I want to show to others, I post on del.icio.us. I don’t file any bookmarks in the bookmark menu though. (There’s lots old stuff in there, but I haven’t added anything in years; I need to clean that stuff out and push anything keepworthy to del.icio.us, but who has the time?)

If you don’t like the official extension, try the other one. Its posting interface OTOH was better than any other before the latest version of the official extension came out, and it has a sidebar for browsing your online bookmarks that’s completely sparate from the main bookmarks. Its browsing interface is pretty crummy though, and it only works online, and then only works well with a fast connection – with a slow one it stalls the browser. But it might be better than nothing.