I am constantly finding new web sites that relate to a topic I am interested in or researching
. I used to just create bookmarks for everything and try to categorize with folders. This proved to be a real pain, and I ended up losing too many good sites in my bookmark list because I just could remember the site name.
I have found two solutions:
del.icio.us and
jeteyedel.icio.us is great for adding tags and a little note to a site very quick. This process barely interrupts your browsing experience. Here's the process I prefer:
- Add quick access buttons to your browser of choice.
- When you find a site you want to remember click on the "post to del.icio.us" button.
- This will send you temporarily to you del.icio.us account. Add your own tags or select tags that others used for this site. You can also at a note if you want to remind yourself of why you tagged this site.
- Click Save and del.icio.us will save this tagged site to your account and immediately return you to the original site.
jeteye does a bit more but is much more intrusive. In jeteye you can create a jetpak for any topic and then add a description, related URLs, images, notes, and other jetpaks. This is really great for more extensive web research, but isn't as quick.
jeteye does provide a
Firefox extension that adds a large sidebar to the browser. The nice thing is that you can just drag items into the sidebar and they are automatically added to you current jetpak.
For now I still prefer the
del.icio.us solution, but I'm continuing to experiment with both.
