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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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This has been Wildly Helpful....Submitted by barryl on April 17, 2007 - 1:35pm.
This has been Wildly Helpful. I think I'll stick with hardwired browser links for the constants and go social with all the fluff and buzz of inquiry, intelligent and otherwise. 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. 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? -b » POSTED IN:
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