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How to Manage Online Resources

Here's a frequent problem I'm giving another shot at. We all browse the web and every now and then, like every day, find something that's worth keeping. I've long ago quit using browser integrated bookmarks. I just hate it.
I haven't gotten around to try any of the online solutions such as del.ico.us and others. But maybe I should.

A while ago I started to write myself emails with a link to the page I wanted to keep. I'm using Outlook 2007 on Vista so I get excellent index support and finding the emails later is a snap.

In order to introduce a little order in my inbox, I created a sub folder of the inbox named Links. I created a few sub folders of the links folder. For now I just got Dev, Tech and Private. After that I set up rules in outlook to move emails that I have sent to these sub folders. To make this work I add a keyword to the subject of the links I'm sending to myself, "_dev:", "_tech:" and "_pri:". (I'm adding these to the end of the subject to not screw up the sorting)

That gives me a little more structure and I can still search the Links folder and it's sub folders.

How do you organize the information overflow? Do you have any good tips?

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Posted: Oct 17 2007, 11:03 PM by Kim | with 4 comment(s)
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splintor said:

Naturally, del.icio.us - I'm at http://del.icio.us/splintor.

Why didn't you use it so far?

It's tagging system lends you to be organized. It's online feature means it is automatically backed up, and another bonus might be the social aspect - where you can share your bookmarks with the world.

I think there are browser add-ons to integrate your account with the browser integrated bookmarks, but I haven't got to install and use it so far.

(BTW, this captcha thing is really annoying. Can't your blog already remember I'm a human?)

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# October 26, 2007 2:12 AM

dotan said:

several solutions as stated here:

blogs.microsoft.co.il/.../browser-history-amp-bookmarking.aspx

I might have something better developing here. i'll let you know.

# October 20, 2008 9:15 PM
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