Library clips

del.icio.us search

search by tag

search your account (all fields - title, tag, description, URI??)

search all accounts (all fields - title, tag, description, URI??)
(You can also do this on the search your account screen by checking the box “entire site”)

You can’t search for a tag within your own account

Other tools

del.icio.us + Gmail (search full-text of your del.ico.us account)
del.icio.us tag search (formal way of adding tags, even within a user)

Where is…

Full boolean searching

Caching of pages for full-text search

Fielded searching (just within tag field, or just within title field, or just within description field, or just within full-text field ???oneday)…and also using boolean operators combined with fielded search.

Refine search (ie. searching within the results from your initial search)

Results clustered by tag

…future

I think search is going to be really needed soon as tags are starting to contain a vast amount of bookmarks.
The amount of items within a tag is great for browsing and serendipity, but if you are trying to find a specific item (even if you know which tag it is in) you will still need to search for it instead of scrolling through 100’s or 1000’s of tags.

What will be the relevance ranking for searching within a folksonomy system, del.icio.us lacks a social rating system.

Check out CollaborativeRank.
From the paper:

“Users on del.icio.us who give meaningful tags to helpful/timely URLs (as evidenced by others subsequently doing the same) will be rewarded with higher CollaborativeRank, which means that their tagging will have greater influence on this search engine’s rankings.”

Choose a Creative Commons Attribution license for your del.icio.us account…check under settings.

Adding to my earlier post.

At the moment as I read the web I print pages out as I find them (for reading on the train journey home).

What I would prefer is to bookmark these pages so I can print them out at the end of the day, but I don’t want to press print for each item, I just want to press print once, to print all items.

I thought if I read stuff in Newsgator Online I can clip to my clippings folder, and at the end of the day run the RSS feed from the clippings folder through RSS2PDF for my daily digest.

But this has 2 problems:

1. It doesn’t include web pages that I don’t read through Newsgator Online

2. It will only print full-text if it appears in Newsgator Online

I thought using del.icio.us will take care of problem 1. as you can save any webpage you like.

But problem 2. is even worse now because at the end of the day if you put your del.icio.us RSS feed through RSS2PDF you will only get a PDF version of what your del.icio.us account looks like (title, URL, comments) - so you only get a bibliographic type list and not the full-text of all the pages you have bookmarked.

The good thing about del.icio.us is you could save your items using tags, and then take your main del.icio.us feed and convert it to PDF, hoping that all your items would appear under tag sections, maybe also being able to print a Table of Contents.
Then you would have to purge your account, allowing you to populate it with only the next day’s items, unless you had a date RSS feed which would only print out items from a specific date.

del.icio.us seems ideal in collecting items and organising them into sections, but it doesn’t print out (via RSS2PDF) the full-text of each item from the del.icio.us page (ie. the RSS feed doesn’t include the full-text of each item, it only includes what you see on your del.icio.us page).

As explained in the previous post you could use a service that doesn’t require a feed URL, but just a normal URL, like PDF-o-matic, but you have to manually print each item as you go, it doesn’t store items for you to print at the end of the day, if it did, it would be good if you could press print only once to print all your collected items…also it would be good to tag your items so your daily digest could be organised into sections.

…any developers out there!

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