processing research
I thought my use of delicious was reasonably sophisticated, then I asked Alex how he uses it,
I work with lots of sources (whether from RSS, Twitter or other news and information sites) and Delicious is an easy way to keep track of these web links. I’m usually too lazy to tag, and occasionally when my firefox tabs get truly unmanageable (150+) then I’ll just use the firefox option to auto-save all tabs into delicious and auto-assign tags to them (from the most commonly used tags for each individual link).
In my workflow, when I come across an article I want to read, I usually first click a button which sends it to Instapaper (where I do all of my reading) and then I set a delicious bookmark. All my delicious bookmarks are automatically synced up to Pinboard as well, since pinboard keeps an archive (offline version) of all links you send to it which I periodically export to one of my offline database programmes (DevonThink Pro Office is the standard one I use).
While I’m reading in Instapaper, I clip stuff to Evernote (one-touch) if there’s a quote which I want cited and stored for later on, and there’s a way to have stuff go to specific Evernote notebooks.
I have Delibar which I use to search my delicious links if I want to find something, and it’s useful for staying in touch with my network, but unfortunately the delicious network functionality is only something that becomes useful if you have a network of people in your field who are using it. Unfortunately, for Afghanistan media, journalism and research, I have yet to find someone else who uses delicious at all (let alone a systematic manner) so I have yet to experience the joys of others sharing links —- and for that, I have twitter, even though I’d rather people posted their links into delicious instead of twitter…
