Seth Ladd's Blog

On the theme of "How to get my del.icio.us links to be useful", I have another idea. Problem: My del.icio.us links are a blackhole, where good links go, never to be retrieved again. Hypothesis: Why are they never able to be retrieved? I believe it's because there is no good way to pull them back out at the moment I need them. Solution: My computer should *know* what I'm doing, and do the search or lookup for me in real time. Google is good for when I need a specific answer to a question. del.icio.us is good for when I don't even know I know the answer. Let me explain. Let's say I'm writing some Ruby on Rails code. As I'm performing Rails related tasks, shouldn't my computer say, "You're writing some Rails migrations. Here's your del.icio.us links related to migrations." Sounds a bit Clippy (It's looks like you're writing a business letter?!), but I think it would be useful. I want those information nuggets (my de...

Just thinking about how to get better ROI from my del.icio.us links . I typically put links in there that I want to retrieve later, usually multiple times. I don't put transiently interesting links in there usually, as I know I'll never go back there. I use del.icio.us to store links I know I'll want to refer to again and again. Problem is, del.icio.us is a black hole. I throw stuff in there, and I never return to it. Why? Because the little Google search box in firefox makes it way to easy to just search google. What I need is a single search box, but with the ability to search google and del.icio.us. I want to see my del.icio.us links have very high priority on my google searches. If I can integrate the two databases, then I'd have something special. I'm sure there's a way to do this with a firefox plugin. There real issue is, "How do I know I put something into del.icio.us?" Once it's in there, how do I know I'm even able to retriev...