Seeing Stars

Between the Google Reader and del.icio.us, my saved bookmarks are spiralling out of control yet again.

I shame-facedly went to the Google Reader, as I detailed here. In spite of my aversion to the Google, it has worked well. Too well. The “add star” feature is just too handy, and I use it too much. I have north of 160 starred items, some of which should have been bookmarked on delicious straight out of the gate. Other starred items are blog posts I wanted to read later, then either save or delete.

Also some of my delicious items are links to blogs that got my attention, and to which I may subscribe.

So I have starred items that should be bookmarked on delicious, and delicious items that should be subscribed via the Google. And I guess the only way to fix the mess is just to slog through both, and fix it up. And thereafter, use each tool for its proper purpose. Easy to say, requires discipline to do.

-k-

GTD – Electronic Cleanup

I spent today at home, tending to a tender left foot.  and decided to clean out my Delicious bookmarks.  I dropped the bookmark count from 941 to around 645, and painstakingly retagged the balance of them into at least a semblance of order.

Here’s an example of my new tag structure : RedHat.SysAdmin.Tools.ssh.  This is more directory-like than tag-like, and I hope I haven’t painted myself into some big delicious unusability corner, but I how have far fewer tags, and my delicious page is ever so tidy.

I only hope I can find the stuff I need.

-k-
[tags] GTD, del.icio.us[/tags]