del.icio.us + PDA = cutting-edge read/review system

[JonathanAquino]

Here's a great way to copy read/review material to your PDA on a nightly basis.

I like to bookmark web articles I intend to review when I have discretionary time. I use the very popular web bookmarking service del.icio.us. One of the great things about del.icio.us is its tagging feature -- in this case, I tag the web articles with "read-review".

Tonight I thought, wouldn't it be great to have all of the latest read-review articles on my PDA? To do this, I use Plucker (there are Palm and Pocket PC versions) to go to my del.icio.us read-review page -- http://del.icio.us/JonathanAquino/read-review -- and I set it up to download the links to my PDA each night.

Voila - all the latest web materials to read/review, right on my PDA and kept continuously up to date! Yay!

[rskoss]

Do you get the actual pages on your PDA, so that you can read them anywhere? Or do you just have the links and you have to find a net connection to read the articles?

[JonathanAquino]

Do you get the actual pages on your PDA, so that you can read them anywhere? Or do you just have the links and you have to find a net connection to read the articles?

Hi rskoss -- That's the cool thing: I get the actual pages on my PDA!!!. That's the beauty of programs like Plucker (maybe AvantGo will work too) -- it will follow links to the depth you specify (in my case I am specifying depth = 1).

[meszilag]

I use "Sunrise Desktop" program+extension in Firefox to make the same task. I think its easier than online bookmarks due to right click operation

[JonathanAquino]

I use "Sunrise Desktop" program+extension in Firefox to make the same task. I think its easier than online bookmarks due to right click operation

Hi meszilag - You can also combine del.icio.us with Sunrise i.e. point Sunrise to your del.icio.us page. del.icio.us might be useful for you in terms of bookmarking a page when you are away from your main computer (e.g. at the library or at another computer at work/home); and you can rely on Sunrise to transfer the pages from the links on del.icio.us to your PDA.

Anyway, just some thoughts.

[meszilag]

Hi Jonathan,
You are right. I havent thought about remote bookmarks. del.icio.us is clearly superior in this case.