Del.icio.us Bookmarklet

Last week I wrote briefly about the GMark Bookmarklet I hacked together based on Adam Pash's GMailThis. Up until discovering Google Bookmarks I had mostly been using del.icio.us and Firefox for managing my archived links. After last week's trouble with Browser Sync though, I decided to move all my bookmarks online.

Del.icio.us is currently my main bookmark archive and Google Bookmarks has become more of a short term bookmark inbox. This process has been a great success so far.

I was so happy with the GMark bookmarklet that I decided to add a new one to help with bookmarking to del.icio.us as well. I figured I'd share it here for anyone who might be interested.

The nice thing about Adam Pash's GMailThis is its use of keywords. Assigning it a keyword makes it possible to quickly mail websites right from your address bar. With GMark this you can tag, annotate and bookmark a site into Google Bookmarks much the same way. The del.icio.us bookmarklet now does the same thing with everyone's favorite social bookmarking site.

Installation

1. In Firefox just drag and drop this Del.icio.us bookmarklet to your bookmarks toolbar. (you can move it elsewhere later.)
2. Right click on the bookmark and assign a keyword (I use db)
3. There is no step 3.

Usage

Once the bookmarklet is in your local bookmarks folder you're set to go. The del.icio.us bookmarklet works much like GMark in that you can adjust the title, tags and add some notes if you wish. To get this done just follow the syntax below - remember that 'db' is my keyword so adjust accordingly. Just type db custom title|Notes|Tags and you've setup a bookmark in del.icio.us just the way you'd like it - all you have to do is click through to finalize it.

Del.icio.us recently changed some of the form input information which temporarily broke this bookmarklet. As of 3/24/07 it is working properly again except for he "Tags" portion of the keyword functionality - currently you can only preset the Title and Notes.