Why del.icio.us sucks April 16, 2008
Yup, time for a nice little rant on something thats been annoying me a whole lot for a long time. So, del.icio.us, that wonderful service where we can all dump our links in a huge list for us to share and access anywhere on the web. Hold on, did I say access? I think I may have got my words mixed up there. What I really mean is we can look at our links, in a totally non-accessable way.
A huge list of links in no apparent order is not useful or productive. Neither are tags. When I save a link, I want to stick it in a lovely folder or category, only one. Then I want to look at a page where links are separated by category, not in a great big splurge. The option of the splurge would be nice when I’m feeling like just going through random links, but normally I don’t have time for that. I want to look at a list of folders/categories, pick the target one and find my link, simple and effective.
Not only is the organization a mess, the whole social thing too, whats up with that? Stumbleupon and Digg are for that. Linkrolls too. Now, this is where del.icio.us is useful. It’s not so much a bookmarking tool as it is a linkroll tool.
Perhaps I am the problem, and I’m using del.icio.us for the wrong thing? I want a service to store my bookmarks everywhere, and if it lists everything in one long line as an option, thats very nice, but less important. I actually did a quick mockup of a design which might suit the category/folder layout, view it here. Ignore the top bar about a ‘Kerplunc’ service, because it’s not… yet. It’s really a personal project, but I’m going to tie it in with Kerplunc’s new application framework, just in case anyone else wants something similar. If you really like it or want to make a suggestion, go ahead and comment 
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I no longer use del.icio.us, because it's unorganized. I use bookmarks, an app by me, for me! Of course, anyone can use it too though. It's unfinished, to work it you'll need a Kerplunc Account, register one here.
When I get around to making such a thing, latest links will magically reappear :)
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