Comments on: Stop printing webpages and start using del.icio.us

By: Annie

Annie — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:46:13 +0000

Jesse: Check out my bookmarks at http://del.icio.us/Brekkie . Hopefully that will help you with organizing them. You obviously don’t have to adopt my tagging system (it’s overkill if you ask most) but you get the drift. I once found someone using a similar tagging system and for me it worked best.

As for being afraid of pages disappearing, I second/third/tenth Google Notebook or Scrapbook. I tend to open 847958374 tabs in Firefox to read later or to blog about but now I just created a notebook to fill with things to blog and then I keep my Firefox uncluttered and running much more efficiently than before.

Thanks, Unclutterer, for your great articles!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:00:42 +0000

Great suggestion. Another good tool like del.icio.us is http://ma.gnolia.com/. I really like the aesthetics of this site, and the social networking and link sharing aspects work very well. I highly recommend it.

By: tay

tay — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:40:55 +0000

I’ve been using the heck out of this site since the post. I like it. However, reading through these posts has me a little paranoid about the sight no longer being available. I like the idea of having the links on my pc as a back-up..I see a lot of posts for mac users, on how to do this. I believe someone did post for microsoft users…if so apologize for this question in advance.
Any EASY, ORGANIZED solution for saving the links on my pc (microsoft user)

By: Melanie

Melanie — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:09:19 +0000

Diigo is my favorite social bookmarking (and annotation) site. In answer to fears of “losing” info if the site goes down, Diigo (and probably others as well) allows you to bookmark simultaneously to multiple services. For example, while I use Diigo as my primary bookmarking system, each bookmark is simultaneously placed in my del.icio.us account as a back-up. Hope this helps.

By: amy

amy — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:37:52 +0000

I love del but… I can NEVER spell the thing! Ever!

Useful though

I assume ye all know about the firefox exstentions you can use so you can post straight from where you are to the site?

Amy

By: Andrea

Andrea — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 02:00:51 +0000

I thought this was a great post. Maybe I am in the minority but I don’t like to have a lot of bookmarks; I use my bookmarks only for sites that I visit frequently. I have just started using delicious and think it is great!

I frequently pull out magazine articles and file them, but now I have gone through all my paper articles and found their digital counterparts online. I saved the digital copies online at delicious and tossed the paper copies. I plan to do the same with all the medical journal articles I have been saving at work. With the tagging functoin, it will be easy for me to search through all my articles and sites to find the ones I want.

I think you guys have an awesome website!

By: jeremyb

jeremyb — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 14:37:50 +0000

If I find a website that has extremely valuable information that I think might go away. I ctrl-A, then ctrl C and then ctrl V into a Word doc. Instead of printing.

By: loriborealis

loriborealis — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 20:06:19 +0000

I’m with linden & Bill P. — I use Diigo.com (BTW, been reading this blog for a while now, first time commenting!)

As they mentioned, Diigo has a ‘cache’ feature that saves the page you’ve bookmarked, so you can still view it even if it goes down. I just went back and looked at an old article I saved two years ago – the article itself is 3 years old. The page isn’t available at the link anymore, but it’s still there, ‘cached’ at Diigo.

Beyond that, you can also highlight whatever you need. The highlights stay forever AND they have a feature where you can extract highlights and print them (or save as HTML document). IMO, Diigo’s invaluable if you do research. You can highlight many paragraphs of long articles or papers, then go back to your Diigo page, click “expand” and all the info is there. Sometimes you don’t even need to go back to the original page to see the info you need.

And like Delicious, tagging is encouraged – and you can post notes right on the page with the Diigo tools and share those notes with colleagues, friends, etc. You would all go to the page and all the notes & highlights would be there.

Besides Diigo I also now use Google Bookmarks, with the GMarks extension for Firefox, when I want to just quickly save something; that way it’s in my browser and online at my Google account (Google bookmarks are private, though). (I also still have a delicious account, but haven’t used it in ages).

By: Jesse

Jesse — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 18:05:34 +0000

I just started using delicious a few days ago and I’m loving it. Now if only someone could tell me how to organize/declutter my links in delicious – its quickly growing out of control!

By: Roger97

Roger97 — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:11:35 +0000

Another site I use to keep and track sites on the go is PhoneFavs: http://phonefavs.com

It’s just like delicious, however its built to be used with your mobile phone as well, so you can access your bookmarks on any device.

By: Zach

Zach — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 16:06:58 +0000

I agree with Anne, Google Notebook is a fantastic way to grab snippets that you need from any webpage . . . and best of all it works on all OS’s. If Google Products are used properly, you can have an incredible amount of organization – Syncing my iCal, Thunderbird on PC, online and on my iPhone with Google Calendar, then using IMAP for Gmail to keep all my inboxes sync, and Google Bookmarks to store all my bookmarks on any platform . . . talk about nice features to having an uncluttered life!

By: Anne

Anne — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:56:53 +0000

Have a look at Google Notebook – a bit like Scrapbook but accessible from any computer anywhere, and it also allows you to save highlighted text rather than the full page if you prefer.

I use it for clipping research information for a couple of projects I’m working on, so that I can get to them from anywhere. Notebook permits organization as well, so that you can group notes/pages together to make them easier to find again.

By: Mardi

Mardi — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 06:22:24 +0000

I use Google Browser Sync, which allows me to sync any or all of cookies, history, bookmarks, open pages and tabs, and saved passwords (using my google account and with an encryption option) between Firefox on as many computers as I like. I used to use it on my work PC and my home Mac (I’m not working outside the home right now but I still use it between my Macs). It doesn’t have the social thing but I’ve never needed that.

Safari’s bookmark syncing is bloody awful I have to say but I tend to favour Safari over Firefox. I think I’ll have a look at delicious and some of the other things mentioned here!

BTW – this is my first comment – great blog!

By: Dee

Dee — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:14:39 +0000

@Jonathan – WHAT?!?!? I have been a mac user well gosh – longer than I care to disclose and never knew there was that option?!??! I just bolted to my home computer (since I was reading this on my work PC) and gave it a whirl – bolted back and finished this post – lol. Cannot believe that was there and I never knew it!!! Its like I just had a V8 moment if you know what I mean.

Thanks for the info!

Dee

By: Bill P.

Bill P. — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:32:13 +0000

You can also use Diigo (http://www.diigo.com) to store online bookmarks. However, as some have mentioned previously, what happens if that site changes or disappears? Diigo creates a cache copy of the site for you, plus you can share your bookmarks, highlight and annotate Web pages with sticky notes and even save Web clips of videos.

There’s a great introductory video available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlqfJsmjcOs

By: Jonathan Thomas

Jonathan Thomas — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:02:10 +0000

If anyone here uses a Mac you have PDF creation built into the OS. Just go to File -> Print -> Save as PDF. I have a huge but nicely organized archive of valuable PDF’s.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:39:06 +0000

Fair enough. I did not realize that so many people were printing. (Think of the forests, folks!). I stand corrected.

By: Vik

Vik — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:35:06 +0000

I’d seen the logo a lot of places. I figured it’d be a place like digg.com… I didn’t realize it was something USEFUL! Excellent!

By: Martin

Martin — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:07:26 +0000

@ Avlor. Happy to have provided a new insight. Cheers!

By: Aria

Aria — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 19:01:41 +0000

I must say however, that rather than printing out webpages – there is also often reason to use a print to pdf or some other way to save them. I like print to pdf so I have the information about when I accessed the page – but if its very important information, I don’t like having only a link saved in delicious – because I have often gone back to my links only to find that a certain great webpage is no longer there (and has only enough of its pages archived at archive.org to make me THINK I’m going to be able to get at the information. This is especially true for students who may need to be able to prove to professors that a certain source really was there on the date the citation says… So use delicious – but use some kind of way to save it on your computer as well (at least its better than a big paper mess =)