Organized Bookmarks for Vacation
April 29th, 2008 | by Rob |WHY? I’m leaving for vacation today but have found some websites I want to access while traveling.
I am going on vacation with my wife today to Alaska! We cashed in frequent flier miles and are staying with friends who live in Anchorage. We’ve tried to do this trip before but it didn’t work out. We leave Tuesday for just over a week.
I really haven’t scheduled any tips for while I’m gone so I wanted to set that expectation. However, it is possible I’ll post one or two while traveling anyway! This is another great reason to subscribe to this site so that you’ll be notified if and when something new goes up!
Now the personal stuff is out of the way, I wanted to share this little tool that I’ve been using for years. It’s a website with a strange web address: http://del.icio.us (pronounced like the word “delicious”).
Delicious is a social bookmarking website. It’s very similar to saving websites in your browser favorites/bookmarks, but instead all the sites you save are online in your account. Now I realize there are sites that you may want to bookmark and not share. I have them also and I use my browser to save them.
However, there are a couple of advantages to having your bookmarks online:
- Access them from any computer with Internet access
- Organize them quickly by tagging them with relevant keywords
- Place descriptions for bookmarked sites when appropriate
- Quickly search your bookmarks
- Make your bookmarks available to others
- See what others find interesting
- View only your bookmarks from a particular tag
Let me show you what I mean by this. You can see my bookmarks at del.icio.us/orangejack. Since we’re going on vacation to Alaska, there are a few sites I wanted to save for my trip. They are all tagged “alaska“. Now if I need to access my bookmarks from any computer with Internet it will be a snap.
I use del.icio.us tags for all sorts of ongoing lists such as my wishlist, good free software, and travel in general. Think of it as a link-blog using tags (even multiple tags per bookmark) to organize them as the most recent bookmark is always at the top.
Have fun organizing your bookmarks online. There are other social bookmarking sites but I’ve been so happy with del.icio.us that I’ve not changed in about 4 years.
How have you used social or online bookmarking to help you?
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