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Re: louisgray.com: RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks

John Welsh — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 03:30:02 -0000

Earlier this week, I edited by bookmarks down to around 1/10 of what they were. So I absolutely agree with you. But one that remains is http://is.gd/ - how else am I gonna' do Twitter?

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks

Craig — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 13:07:40 -0000

I barely ever use bookmarks anymore, the ones I do or for sites that require logins. I am much more in tune with my RSS. Because of this I never got into the bookmarking social tools like StumbleUpon and Delicious. Do you use them on a regular basis? Or if so, more just for a marketing tool to drive traffic to your blog.

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks

Rob Schlüter — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:18:00 -0000

True, RSS is very easy to let new posts come you. Also very useful is the address bar in Firefox. It searches URL history but also page titles and seems to learn from my queries. At the moment typing 'm' returns GMail as the first result, 'r' returns Readers address, etc.

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks

Scott (すこっと) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:56:46 -0000

I have completely adopted a similar strategy. I rarely, if ever, use bookmarks on my computer. Obviously I use them on the iPhone because that is really the only way to easily get to web sites on the iPhone, but outside of that I'm all over Google Reader and del.icio.us (well, delicious.com these days).

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. :-)

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks

Michael Becker — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:13:49 -0000

I'm a heavy RSS user, mostly Google Reader right now. (I just migrated from using NetNewsWire and Newsgator).

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?

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks

Mike Reynolds — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:20:00 -0000

I have some bookmarklets, a small set of bookmarks on iGoogle organized in folders, and a boatload of social computing sites where I dump my infostream (FF, Twitter, delicious).

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Mr. Gunn — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 22:04:00 -0000

Bookmarks? What are those? I have a bunch of bookmarklets on my toolbar, but that's about it. I haven't used a bookmark from the menu in years.

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks

mathewballard — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 21:04:11 -0000

For some I can see RSS replacing bookmarks. But, there are so many sites that I go to that wouldn't be properly accessed by RSS that I need to have the massive amount of bookmarks that I do have.

BTW, kudos on the way you structure your bookmarks. I do the same thing.

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks

andydavies — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 18:20:23 -0000

delicious and google bookmarks were the things that finally stopped me using browser bookmarks.

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.

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks

Louis Gray — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:30:10 -0000

I don't tend to use Delicious for saving bookmarks to return to 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

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks

Louis Gray — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:29:09 -0000

Bob, the "home page" could be considered a mega bookmark. I'm grateful
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.

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks

Louis Gray — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 17:15:09 -0000

The bookmarks I use are actually hot-coded to command keys in Safari
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.

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks

Nigel Walsh — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:12:17 -0000

Im with you - maybe because Im a virgo - but totally organised! saying that I hardly ever use them. My Bookmarks Links bar is my way to everything, however, i also have folders on their so for work stuff, I can drop folders straight out of the links bar..

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks

Peter Spook — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:19:00 -0000

There's no way I'd be managing to read as many of the blogs that I read by using bookmarks. Why check every few days when you can have the article sent to you? I've gone from reading a few websites (appleinsider, cnet, etc..) to reading 50+ blogs using an RSS reader. For my reading I use NetNewsWire because it'll synch what I've read and haven't between my Macs and my PC, though google reader is just as good for that.

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.

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BEX — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:07:00 -0000

I like instapaper - stuff I want to read but don't have time. getting into Evernote also

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks

Claudia Sommer — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:08:27 -0000

I don't use bookmarks anymore for about a year. My daily tools are Google Feedreader, Twitter an OtherInbox for managing my subscriptions.

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks

Matt Faulkner — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:26:00 -0000

I have a handful of bookmarks that take me to my personal pages (like WP-admin pages) - Other than that, it's rss or links people send me, that then go into rss

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks

AJ Kohn — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 11:15:00 -0000

Agreed. Bookmarks are for practical items that I return to frequently and that's all. I start with RSS most of the time and then add stuff to Delicious if I find it interesting or want to read it later. One thing I missed (headslap) and have now done is put a bunch of News Alerts into RSS. Day 1 and I'm already finding new things far quicker.

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks

John Serra — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 10:56:00 -0000

I too like to start out from my RSS feeds, but enjoy browsing where I haven't been before as well. I use Diigo for bookmarks, but mostly to share pages and highlights with a group.

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks

Sean McBride — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:33:00 -0000

The world is a collection of RSS feeds. If it isn't an RSS feed, it's not on the grid.

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks

Matteo — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 09:31:00 -0000

Sites with no RSS end up in delicious and then I forget them

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Adrian — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:49:00 -0000

I hate sites without RSS, it's like they are trying to hide themselves

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Hanna — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 08:30:00 -0000

Well, I still bookmark but only the pages with tutorials and other reference text (something I would like to quote, for instance). But yes, the pages I am checking more often - they "land" in Google Reader (right now Feedly flavour).

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks

tsiakhyie — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:18:00 -0000

All my internet surfing these days occurs from Google Reader. It has practically eliminated my 'internet surfing' days.

Re: louisgray.com: RSS Has Practically Eliminated My Need for Browser Bookmarks

David HC Soul — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 03:35:00 -0000

I'm with Lindsay on this. I was bitterly disappointed with Evernote when the first release of their web product came out (and coincident ending of offering/development of their Windows desktop version), but over time (and especially since the release of the iPhone version I have come to depend on Evernote and my use of bookmarks (including the Delicious et al type) has rapidly declined- it is so great to have the relevant content along with the link to source (which I now use for reference citing purpose).