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for me. Command-1 hits Yahoo! Finance. Command-2 hits Mail. Command-5
Google Reader, etc. That way I'm never clicking and dragging into
nested folders. FriendFeed, Google Reader and Twitter Search are my
information filters.
First, I keep a personalized home page on my web site so that no matter what computer I'm on, I can quickly get to a home page that I like and I'm productive with. It has all my links for Google Reader, web email for all my accounts, and so on, and so forth. Those are my meta-bookmarks. I've used this page from cruise ships, friend's computers, and yes, I have a special version for my iPhone too.
Second, my Google Reader is very much fire and forget. Once I read an article there, I move on from it. That's great, but for some of my interests, there are articles I will want to refer back to at some point for reference purposes. This is typically not material on an RSS feed, it's one-off articles. I like to use Delicious for that purpose, and anything I think I may want to reference again from Google Reader gets shot off to my shared reader log (great feature, BTW!).
we're beyond the point where half the sites on the Web had
instructions on "How to make us your start page!" but I won't turn my
browser over to the equivalent of "about:blank" any time soon.
For Google Reader, I actually use it for a few things:
1. Sheer consumption of news
2. Sharing news via the link blogs to other social media sites.
3. Opening the news items to new browser tabs.
4. I often go back to the link blog and make comments or do other
actions like submit the best to Digg, StumbleUpon, etc.
My link blog therefore becomes my massive roll of bookmarks.
I have bookmarked my bank, several on-line tools I use again and again.
For daily updates - My Google reader, and Twitter are where I go first. Then Smaller Indiana and FriendFeed when I have more time.
LIke Bob's comment below, I move through items in my reader quickly, if there is something I want to return to , I use WebNotes to mark it and save to one of my directories, with notes on what I liked about it
Yes, you can share an individual blog post with FriendFeed or the shared folder of Google Reader, but how easily can you find it a year later?
Instead, I use Google Reader's link blog for just that. I've used
Delicious to track mentions of this site for about a year. At one
point, I thought that would be simple enough to do manually through a
custom HTML page, but this year was nuts.
You can see my nonsense here: http://delicious.com/louismg
That said, I do keep three sets of bookmarks in my browser.
1. Daily Forums: I dislike reading forums in GR. They are too difficult to follow and generate WAY to much noise. I do like to review the forums every day or so.
2. Daily News: I start my day by reading some news sites. It is a collection of local papers, Google News, and about 1/2 dozen Alltop pages.
3. Fast Links: The primary sites I visit. Mostly productivity stuff/web 2.0 apps.
Good article, very timely for me.
I will use the web browser for especially spammy websites. News sites, for example, generally have a lot of articles published on a daily basis. In this case I can just visit the site and parse out the articles that I want to read.
Tabbed browsing and RSS readers have greatly affected how much information I can take in.
I thought it was a great idea to have a centralized place to put my addresses.
At first I didn't see any pro in tagging (web2.0 was not born yet :)
Then I started tagging, but when I need something I just use the search, unless I remember I used a very particular - and not much used - tag.
In case I need to consult a website frequently I put it in the browser bar.
delicious gave me a place to store all the items I wanted to keep for reference and google bookmarks a place to store the sitesI might want to visit regularly.
I don't want everything to come into my feedreader, and I'm not sure it's the best place to store all the items I want to keep for the future - a star might mean I want to keep it, or perhaps I just want to read it later.
BTW, kudos on the way you structure your bookmarks. I do the same thing.
I heavily use both Diigo and Delicious, but I use them for one specific purpose (and only to bookmark individual articles, not whole Web sites). I bookmark on Diigo because it allows me to highlight portions of Web pages that I want to remember and perhaps comment on later. Then, Diigo mirrors all my links over to Delicious, which has more customizable link rolls. I then use the Delicious link roll to display my bookmarks on my blog (www.hypercrit.net).
Complicated, and there's probably an all-in-one solution out there somewhere. Anyone got any good suggestions?
If a site does not offer an RSS feed of its content then the chances I visit it on a reoccurring basis are slim to none. I am at the point that I do not want to visit a site to see what's the latest and greatest; I much prefer reading feeds in Google Reader, or Byline on the iPhone, because of the simplicity and because I can stay in a central location and read all the content I find interesting.
As I said, when I do desire to bookmark a site for future returns, I do so in delicious. That way my bookmarks are available wherever I go, without the need to copy files or install pointless plugins.
I think we're at the point where local bookmarks need to be deprecated in favor of storing them in the cloud. This is essentially what can be done with delicious and the delicious bookmarks plugin for Firefox.
I might write about experience with RSS and bookmarks if you don't mind my borrowing your idea. :-)