I love Delicious.
I use it everyday. I open it prior to opening any other tab in Mozilla. I start with delicious and move on from there. I have a tag for startup. This is where most of my bookmarks are for the many tools, sites and blogs I use on a daily basis. The term startup helps trigger my mind to say- oh yeah all the things I need to get started.The two major reasons why you should be using delicious in combination with Mozilla Firefox web browser are:
- You can access your bookmarks from any computer with an Internet connection. They are in the “cloud”.
- You can share bookmarks with others in your network, company or field etc.
- You shouldn’t need any more reasons besides one and two.
I also love to tag things with toread or toblog or toreview.
- toread is a blog post I’ve found online that didn’t come through RSS in my Google Reader. If it’s in Google Reader I star it or share it. That’s another day and another post.
- toblog is a topic or post or tool or site that I want to share with my readers on one of my personal or business blogs.
- toreview is typically a site that had great content but I didn’t have or want to invest time going down the rabbit hole to investigate it just yet.
Other than those three main tags, I get pretty liberal (I have trouble using the word liberal even in that connotation) with tags. I have some main ones like digitaltools, organization, socialmedia and shopping that help me lump a lot of similar bookmarks together.
Notice all my tags have no spaces. If you use spaces with your Delicious tags it will make the two words each their own tag. Make sure you pick up on this early if you’re new to delicious. They are just adding a bulk edit feature so going back to retag bookmarks can be a pain until that is rolled out.