www.inkthinkerblog.com — Are you a compulsive website bookmarker like I am? As a writer with five blogs, I’m always on the lookout for post ideas and news items I want to feature. And as a result, my bookmarks folder is overflowing, I can’t find anything I want, and I can’t remember what half of the bookmarks were for anyway. Or, I should say, that’s how it was.
The other day, I took about 45 minutes to go through my bookmarks folder in both Safari and Firefox and either delete or categorize every bookmark I had. I also set FF as my official default browser, so when I click on a link someone e-mails me, it always opens there.
But wait, there’s more. Some bookmarks that I use every day, like Gmail or my blog dashboards, I left in my list of FF bookmarks. But I converted everything else to a Google bookmark. Now, I can access my list of ideas from any computer, and everything is tagged with the blog or blogs that apply to each item.
How do you keep track of your Web bookmarks?
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My browser is Internet Explorer. In my favorites (bookmarks) file, there are 97 subfiles and sub-subfiles. When I bookmark something, it immediately goes into one of those files, which I created to categorize bookmarks. And I don’t always use the bookmark name that automatically pops up in the bookmark-saving dialog box; I often change it to a name that will make the most sense to me in the future.
I very carefully organize mine. I have many, many folders, carefully labelled. Topics around writing have the most folders. One folder for authors websites, one for my published pieces, one of friends pieces, one for all the different market databases, and magazines.
I have other folders too, but I won’t bore you with those. The one called MISC is where I just put interesting things I can’t bear to delete b/c someday I or someone else might need it. I often let the bookmarked pages pile up before sorting them into folders. This way I can delete what I really don’t need. Bookmarks that I use very often don’t get put into folders, so that I can access them quickly, but there are only a few (meaning 3 or 4) of those.
I use delicious, which I suspect is similar to Google bookmarks. You can access delicious links from anywhere, share with friends, cross-reference (for example, guidelines women health or entrepreneur research) and there’s even a delicious toolbar to make bookmarking super-easy.
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Having moved to del.icio.us some time ago, the trauma of losing my IE and other bookmarks is no longer a possibility. I’ve got everything I need online and available to me from any computer, so that’s great. Like Susan says, the advantages include access to other people’s favourites, sharing among friends, and ‘tagging’ your bookmarks in categories of your choice.
I tend to go a bit mad with my organising – it keeps me busy when I should be doing ‘serious’ writing.
Here’s mine: http://del.icio.us/mumbaiwallah
Feel free to add me as a friend, browse through or save my favourites.
I also remembered that by seeing who else bookmarked your favorites, you can find related links (in my case related writing markets that I never knew existed). Pretty cool, huh?
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Susan and Chryselle are both in my network on del.icio.us, and I spend some time daily fishing around their latest bookmarks.
:)
I started using Netvibes a few months ago and haven’t looked back since. I like it better than any other RSS reader I’ve tried. I have several tabs set up, categorized according to niche or faves. It’s super easy to set up your feeds and instantly read the ones you want.
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