Fri
Jul 4
12:13pm
Making my del.icio.us even more delicious
For a while now I’ve been bookmarking blog posts, news articles, web sites and tutorials I like via the del.icio.us bookmarking service, which is far more useful than your browser’s bookmarks/favourites for one simple reason: you can assign tags to whatever you bookmark. As we all know, tags and/or categories are incredibly useful way of sorting items into manageable chunks. There are other benefits too, but that’s the key one for me.
Recently I’ve been saving less and less to del.icio.us, and suspect it’s because my chunks were no longer manageable. I had well over 100 tags in my tag cloud, and tagging each new bookmark was becoming a nightmare: to assign tags I have to search through the huge list trying to find appropriate ones.
So today I sorted it out.
This is what my del.icio.us tag cloud looked like before:
And this is after 30 minutes of consolidating and deleting tags:
Much better!