Very often, I find an interesting article that I don’t have the time to read
just now and I want to make sure I won’t forget to read it some time later.
To achieve this, I have created a tag read_later in my
del.icio.us bookmarks. Whenever I find
such an article, I now file with this tag in my bookmarks and when I find myself
with a few minutes on my hand, I can just click on my read_later tag
and pick an article I haven’t read yet (and remove it from there when I’m done).
To speed up this process, I have created
this bookmarklet which allows me to file the current Web page in the
read_later category in one click (well, two, you still need to save it, but
I like this because it gives me a chance to add tags before I file the page).
Just drag and drop the link in your toolbar, edit it to replace
YOUR_LOGIN_HERE with your del.icio.us login and you’re ready to
go.
#1 by Jonathan Aquino on March 3, 2005 - 8:24 pm
If you’ve got a PDA, then you can write a script to download your del.icio.us read_later pages to your PDA each night. That’s what I do – works great.
#2 by Filippo on March 3, 2005 - 11:00 pm
Good hint, Cedric.
Now we have a global and interesting ‘to-read list’
http://del.icio.us/tag/read_later
#3 by Filippo on March 4, 2005 - 2:15 am
I’ve published a php server script that automatically forwards to the next read_later page….
http://www.diotalevi.com/weblog/?p=22
#4 by Chris on March 4, 2005 - 8:15 am
Thanks, Cedric! Make it as a pop up would be even better, as u don’t have to wait for it to connect and save.
#5 by The Room on March 4, 2005 - 8:20 am
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#6 by Phil! Gregory on March 4, 2005 - 10:10 am
Nice idea, and one that I think I’ll steal for my browser. I’ve a couple comments, though:
From my experience, the most common tag for indicating that you want to read something later is ‘toread’. Not that it really matters, since it’s a tag that’s pretty much exclusively for your personal use, but it makes for a more common glocal to-read list.
I like the script to go to the top item from the list. I do a similar thing with firefox’s live bookmarks. I have a live bookmark subscribed to the RSS feed for my toread tag, so I get an up-to-date list of reading material straight from my browser UI.
#7 by B. Rintoul on March 4, 2005 - 1:48 pm
That is a great idea indeed. I might implement something like it in a context menu in my HuntAndGather extension for Firefox…
(you can get the 0.4 version from http://huntandgather.mozdev.org/installation.html )
#8 by Joseph on March 4, 2005 - 2:35 pm
Sidenote, I’ve seen “revisit” and “system:unfiled” used as tags for this as well.
#9 by Peter Parkes on March 5, 2005 - 9:44 am
If you find that extra click to save the bookmark too much, check out this (http://www.hiddenchemistry.com/2005/03/05/delicious-read-later/), a PHP-javascript combo which cuts out the extra effort!
#10 by Peter Parkes on March 9, 2005 - 6:11 am
It seems like I went to a whole lot of unnecessary effort – see my latest post (http://hiddenchemistry.com/2005/03/09/one-delicious-click/) for a much simpler ‘one click’ solution.
#11 by Neeraj Kumar's drive by thougths on ....well whatever he drives by on March 12, 2005 - 3:15 pm
Read later bookmarklet by Cedric
#12 by Sirius Kase on March 30, 2005 - 2:05 pm
I just borrowed your bookmarklet and tried it out. Works great! Thanks. Now I just need that download to PDA script that Jonathan mentions.
#13 by piyo on April 1, 2005 - 8:15 am
You need to replace the “escape” function with “encodeURIComponent” so that it works in foreign languages, like Japanese.
Like this:
“javascript:location.href=’http://del.icio.us/new/YOURUSERNAME?url=’+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+’&title=’+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+’&tags=read_later”
#14 by mardoen on April 9, 2005 - 7:37 am
I use the experimental del.icio.us bookmarklets to add links. this is your bookmarklet experimental-style:
javascript:location.href=’http://del.icio.us/new/YOURUSERNAME?v=2&url=’+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+’&title=’+encodeURIComponent(document.title)+’&tags=read_later’
#15 by PC on May 9, 2005 - 8:50 am
You are now listed in the Absolutely Del.icio.us – Complete Tool Collection
http://pchere.blogspot.com/2005/02/absolutely-delicious-complete-tool.html
#16 by Joe Becher on September 20, 2005 - 4:55 am
Very helpful. Thank you.
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