Thursday, February 23, 2006

del.icio.us and jeteye

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 jeteye


del.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:

  1. Add quick access buttons to your browser of choice.
  2. When you find a site you want to remember click on the "post to del.icio.us" button.



  3. 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.



  4. 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.

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