Bookmarks and That
June 1 2008The other day I mentioned that I sometimes get into a bit of trouble when browsing the web, in that I end up having a huge number of tabs open, so I thought I’d blog a bit more about it. At the moment, I use several methods of bookmarking websites: delicious to save urls for reference and and long-term recall (so, things I may want at some point in the future), Instapaper for things I haven’t finished reading yet, and then a combination of Safari bookmarks, Together, and keeping tabs open in Safari to remember stuff I’m researching or working on at the moment (so, things I will probably need sometime soon).
Obviously, using a multitude of systems for variations on the same task isn’t ideal. I’m sure it’d be possible to use delicious in such a way that you could cover all these uses with the right selection of tags, however again I’m not sure this is ideal, and it’s not the intended use of the system. If anyone knows of a bookmarking system that covers most/all of these uses, please let me know!
My current plan is to implement my own system to solve this problem, and I figure it’d be a good excuse to put Ruby on Rails into practice to make a proper website. Intended features include: storage of bookmarks for a range of uses - each with an associated ‘view’ (these uses will include reference, research, and pages currently being read), tagging of bookmarks, and adding bookmarks via bookmarklets. I’ll let you know how I get on.