I like the idea behind del.icio.us (referred to as delicious going forward) but managing all the content or “bookmarks” can quickly become an annoyance as they increase in number. If you use delicious already and haven’t already integrated the newest Firefox plugin, I highly recommend doing so. The initial kinks the plugin suffered from seem to have since been ironed out.
Often times, I’ll find myself wanting to quickly save a site into delicious without taking the time to tag it appropriately. I was previously tagging those sites as “tagme” but have since discovered a better method.
Instead of having a tag like “tagme”, “unread” or even no tag at all, make use of the networking tags that delicious offers and tag it as “for:yourname” (where yourname is your delicious user name.
When using the firefox plugin this becomes a two-click action because the “for:yourname” option becomes listed under the network tags.
As an added benefit, the sites you bookmark in this manner can be found in your delicious inbox which remain marked as unread until you open that folder. Nice huh?
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Thanks for your tip. However I’m less familiar with downloading a programm on my old much too crowded computer, than with inventing tags or writing… but still your post made me conscious about my tagging behavior.
Glad to help Odile, thanks for stopping by!