How do you keep track of interesting sites on the Internet? Personally, I’m a memory guy. I have never kept a bookmark list in a browser. I remember keywords and find pages by Googling. My reasoning was always that if I relied on a bookmark list, at some point I would be without the list and then I’d be out of luck.
For awhile I kept a personal link list on my website, but it was not stupidly simple to maintain and update and eventually the links fell out of date. I had thought of trying one of those online bookmarking services, but my system of keyword memorization worked so well I didn’t think I needed it.
The Problem Memorization works fine as long as you remember that you want to remember something. If you forget about something that you wanted to remember, then it doesn’t matter if you remember keywords or not – it’s already forgotten.
I suppose an example is in order. One day at work I’m googling for “Advanced CSS techniques” and find a great article that I just don’t have time to read right now. So I file it away in memory. The problem is, I later forget that there was something that I had wanted to read. If I could remember that, then I could easily find the article again. Got it?
The Solution Recently I came across this online bookmarking service called Diigo, which stands for “Digest of Internet Information, Groups and Other stuff”. It actually let’s you highlight pages with your own comments, and even mark links as “Read” or “Unread” so you can quickly mark something of interest and go back and read it later.
So I’m no longer a memory guy, I’m a Diigo guy. And I feel so much more organized!
Do you use an online bookmarking service? If so, which one, and what do you like/dislike about it?
Wow, two days, two posts. What’s wrong with me!!?
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