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How does this apply to del.icio.us bookmarks?Becoming a tagging kung-fu master By: Ian Beck (11 replies) October 5, 2007 - 5:28am
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How does this apply to del.icio.us bookmarks?
First of all, great idea for an article. The only application in which I’ve successfully used tagging is iPhoto, where I’ve tagged each photo with the names of the people that appear in it. When I need to, I can construct a smart folder of all the pictures that include Oscar, for example.
I would really love to hear what kinds of “attributes” people have settled on for tagging URLs in their del.icio.us bookmarks. I have a lot of bookmarks, but the tags that I assign to them are always very ad hoc and decided on the spur of the moment. As a result, I can’t reliably use them to “find” anything later. Does anyone have a more coherent system for doing this? What kinds of tags do you use?