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bookmarking like water
barryl | Apr 15 2007
I'm trying to dig myself out of the fog, and one thing headed for sure into that galaxy-class inbox is the tangled mess of mis-matched bookmarks on 3 different computers. Are social bookmarks the best way to clean this up? I like the lookfeel of ma.gnolia, but can't see how tagging and grouping will ever replace a (someday) lean, organized nest of bookmarks. I think having old-fashioned, hard-wired browser bookmarks for routine work like financials, preferred shopping, the library, car registration, schools, etc. makes sense. They're fairly fixed and should be easy enough to maintain across different machines. Right? I think a sole, online, collection is nicely suited for hunter gathering forays from ANY machine, whether for ongoing projects or ad hoc impulses. What are your thoughts, perspectives on this? What satisfying solutions have you found? Is social bookmarking more advantageous than simple bookmark syncing? Does one support GTD methodology better? Can this ever be clean, fast, simple, kinda sorta complete--over and done with? Many thanks. -b 12 Comments
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 Concerning delicious vs. magnolia: any...Submitted by Berko on April 17, 2007 - 4:09pm.
barryl;9003 wrote:
Concerning delicious vs. magnolia: any experiences with more/less convenience/capabilities when rssing bookmarks into their respective corrals? I see delicious offers "bundles"; not so sure how to feed magnolia marks into dedicated boxes. I think it's about the same if you tag things intelligently and know the format for an RSS feed in your chosen SBS (Social Bookmarking Service). For Ma.gnolia, the rss feeds (for tags) are in the form of http://ma.gnolia.com/rss/full/people/[username]/tags/[taglist] The [taglist] is a little different from del.icio.us where the tags are space delimited. Use + for space and %2C (url encoded ,) to separate tags. So, even if a particular combination of tags doesn't exist, you can create the feed for it ahead of time. Quote:
Or are these boxes a dwindling paradigm? I get the feeling that tags are supplanting folders. I'm not quite wrapping my mind around why tagging bits and then summoning them onto a blank field offers more organizational clarity than starting with a field already populated with EVERY folder, each containing ALL related bits. Thoughts on this? Will we soon be talking about folders the way we talk about 8 track cassettes and Edsels, and even less often? The key to tagging, as Chrome mentioned is the ability to cross reference easily. If something is in a folder, it can only be in one folder unless you duplicate it. Of course, that can get very messy in a big hurry. With tags, I can search for bookmarks about programming as it relates to IT, OS X, or information security. If a bookmark is tagged as "programming, OS X, information security" then it will show up when I am looking for stuff about OS X Information Security, programming information security, or programming OS X. I think that there are two kinks that have to be worked out before hierarchical folder structure goes the way of the 8 track, Edsels, and the buffalo. [Bonus points to anyone that catches the intended reference in the last sentence.] First, I think the concept of synonyms has to be implemented in any tagging application quasi-automatically. It should be adjustable but automatic. I hate when I find that I have tagged a series of marks with a tag that is singular instead of the plural I had been using in the past or adds -ing to the end when I hadn't before or any of the other buffoonery I can manage. Damn, after writing all that, I can't remember what the second one was. But there was definitely a second one. If anyone thinks of it, please PM me. :-\ » POSTED IN:
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