Do you use delicious? If you
don't, why not? You should if you answer "Yes" to either of the
following:
- Do you save webpages that you want to visit later (to
reference, write about, or other)?
(Or, do you ever wish you had saved a webpage of information?)
- Do you work on more than 1 computer or do you want to keep a
backup of your data?
(trick question: your answer to data backup should always be
"Yes.")
Then you should be using del.icio.us. I'm glad I've convinced
you so easily.
If you have any number of bookmarks therein and care at all
about keeping things tagged in a way that you can search them, you
know that keeping your del.icio.us bookmarks organized is hard.
Well, here is a tool that is useful: it
checks all your bookmarks to see which links are dead. Then you can
remove them or find the new links. Handy.
It's called Fresh Del.icio.us: http://freshdelicious.googlepages.com/download
Now I just need to find a tool that will help me tag all my
bookmarks that need tagging - and get my tags lined up.
Bonus points: Programs written in Java (which this is) are
usually really ugly. This one, while clearly not an Apple design,
isn't.
Note: When I ran it on my 2800 bookmarks it
took more than a little while. (Imagine having to open 2800 web
pages - no small feat.) I think I also hit a maximum of hits with
the del.icio.us API - oops. BTW, almost half of my 2800 bookmarks
are private - so you won't see them. That's because they were
imported from Firefox and I haven't finished tagging all of them.
After I tag them well, I make them public - I don't want my mess to
spill out into the public.