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When I found out about Delicious, I couldn’t see the attraction. I mean … bookmarks? I’m going to use a Social Media site to store URL’s ? I finally got a second pc (Asus Eee), and wanted to be able to access my Desktop bookmarks, so I was at first doing the whole Firefox export hassle, and copying it to the notebook via a USB drive, but then started using Delicious along with the Firefox plugin for it - keep it all on the Net, very easy. The main reason for mentioning Delicious, though, is its usage along with the FF plugin.
It lets you procrastinate on clicking on to an interesting URL when you’re otherwise trying to get stuff done. Say that you’re trying to get work done on your notebook at the coffee place. Pretend you’re logging out of your Hotmail account, and you end up on that really busy MSN front page with today’s news, the latest Articles, etc. This is where you use Delicious. Below, I found myself on MSN, and I wanted to read about this new book by the Hudson pilot, Sully, so I right-clicked, and up came the Firefox context menu, and I selected “Bookmark this link in Delicious”. ( this is BIG - I didn’t even have to navigate to the page itself, and thus be reeled into reading it right then)  The Delcious right-click context menu - brilliant When you select that menu option, you get a Dialog:
I decided on the tag: “readonce” as the one I use (as you can see) when I’m bookmarking something I want to read later. If its a really good article, page, site, whatever and I want to get to this soon, I add the tag “priority’, so that last line will be “readonce priority” The final point, just to be clear: Even if I sold my notebook and went back to having a single PC, I’d continue using the web-based Delicious for bookmarking, because of how much time you’re getting back from the addictive but progress-killing web surfing. Post a comment
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