Del.icio.us Address-barlets
The del.icio.us social bookmark system completely replaces my in-browser bookmarks with the addition of the following Keymarks (or Searchlets or Address-barlets or whatever you call them).
Here’s an introduction to searching from the address-bar and here’s the coolest web based bookmark manager on the planet. Put them together and you can hide the Bookmark Toolbar because you won’t be needing it anymore.
My del.icio.us bookmarks are starting to fill in nicely. I started using del.icio.us because I wanted to keep a linkblog and the RESTful web service API makes it possible for me to suck things into this site. My plan moving forward is for this site to be a big aggregator of content publicly available via web services (e.g. Blogger for posting, Bloglines for blogrolling, maybe some forum web app for comments, sourceforge for projects, etc.) More on that later, right now we’re talking about using del.icio.us as a searchable bookmark index. Here are the Searchlets you will need to get up and going:
| What | Shortcut | Destination URL |
|---|---|---|
| Search bookmarks for %s | ds | http://del.icio.us/search/?search=%s |
| Bookmarks tagged with %s | dt |
http://del.icio.us/username/%s Note: you have to edit the URL and put your username in there. |
| Another User's Bookmarks | du | http://del.icio.us/%s |
| Everyone's bookmarks tagged with %s today | dtt | http://del.icio.us/tag/%s |
Get these set up in your browser, get a delicious account, and then
start using them by working the following into your motor memory. You should be
able to get to the address-bar with a keyboard shortcut (e.g. Ctrl+L in
Firefox, Command+L in Safari, I’m sure IE has one too). The shortcut will
also select all the text in the address-bar so typing replaces the current URL.
Once in the address-bar use the Shortcut keyword defined in the table above.
For example, search all of your bookmarks with:
<Ctrl+L>
ds foo
<ENTER>
Delicious always seems extremely responsive so from the time you decide you need a bookmark to the time you’re looking at it should average out to be about one or two seconds depending on how fast you type. I’d like to see any of you point-and-clicks beat that running through layers of menu for 20 randomly chosen bookmarks.
Other Random Notes
Safari users can grab the Sogudi extension to add support for
keyword searching from the address-bar. Replace %s by @@@ for the URLs
given above.
If you are new to del.icio.us, I would suggest grabbing the nutr.itio.us bookmarklet to enhance the act of bookmarking.