del.icio.us + Gmail
Jan 27, 2005, 09:08pm EST
I love del.icio.us, it makes it very easy to maintain the link blog on the side of my page. However, del.icio.us is missing two key features: page caching and a decent search.
What I want del.icio.us to do is to keep a cache of every page I bookmark just in case the page disappears. Additionally, I want to be able to search my bookmarks for text contained in a page, not just the text in the URI or my extended description. At work, a co-worker[1] suggested to me that I forward a copy of all my bookmarks to my Gmail account. What a great idea! This lets me save a gig worth of pages and lets me search my bookmarks.
I’ve updated
my
script which runs once a day to get the links for my link blog. It now
crawls each link and sends an email to a Gmail account with the
From field being the page
URI, the
Subject being the tags, and the body being a copy of the page.
In addition to searching the page text, I can filter by tags by using an
advanced search (e.g., subject:python).
Now I love del.icio.us and Gmail more than before.
[1] I’m not sure he wants his name listed, so I’ll omit it.
DC at Jan 28, 2005, 01:36am EST
Clever. Now you just need a firefox plugin that does the search for you when you type a special key (you never use right?). It could keep your gmail page open, but hidden, do the search and then pop it up with the results. Heck, since gmail is auto-login for 2 weeks you may not even need it to be open in the background for this to work (though the timing would be weird if you had to open it before searching it).