I’m reading an organizing book called How to Cheat at Organizing by Jeff Bredenberg. He gives some good advice on bookmarking (the emphasis is mine):
Bookmark the best sites.
If you’re not in the habit of bookmarking your favorite Internet sites, start doing it, says Erika Salloux, the personal and business organizer. There are way too many useful web sites – you can only keep a handful of them in your head. Categorize your bookmarks using a folder system that mirrors the categories you use for e-mails and for hard-copy files. You’ll be able to find the site you need more intuitively that way. Some Internet browsers allow you to keep notes about why you bookmarked a particular site – an extremely handy feature.
I totally agree. That’s one of the main reasons why I made WebnoteHappy and WebnoteHappy Lite: so that you can easily take notes when you make a bookmark so you remember why you created it.
As far as categorization goes, WebnoteHappy is mainly tag-focused right now. I’m exploring options on making it easier to use folders/categories in the future.
Why would you want to take a step backwards? One of WebnoteHappy’s best features is that it’s forward-thinking and ready for the folder=>tagging transition. Folders and categories are so restrictive; I don’t know anyone who’s wanted to go back to a folder structure once they “get” tagging.
Granted, just because I don’t know anyone who prefers folders it doesn’t mean such people don’t exist, but WebnoteHappy already includes basic folder support; I selfishly don’t particularly want more development time devoted to such an antiquated organisational approach. =)
I second justG. There are many folders/categories based URL-managers on the market, why make WebnoteHappy one of them? I’d really prefer major enhancements to the tagging functionality (e.g. assign/remove tags to multiple entries at once, change multiple tags at once, and/or/not search clauses, and so on). That would really strengthen WNH’s USP, not the other way round.
justG and Helmar: I agree with improving the tag management in Webnote. We will be doing that in future releases.
I think though that at least the initial import could be made more folder-friendly for those users who like having folders and tags.
Thanks again for your input!
I appreciate that WH supports folders *and* tags. They serve different purposes for me, especially without other metadata that could be used to distinguish and group different items.
Hopefully the bug keeping drag/drop rearrangement of folders within folders from working properly will be fixed.
Allowing regular folders to contain smart folders would be useful for managing the vertical growth of the source list. I really like that selecting a folder displays the contents of any child folders and would want that to happen with any child smart folders, too.
Any rough estimate when we might see another update? I’ve hesitated making more requests because of the slow paced development.
Oh, one more folder-related idea …
Ability to determine all folders that contain a selected item, similar to “Show in Playlist” in iTunes.
Thanks!
The thing I need is LABELS. I want my bookmarks to go through a workflow process (now, later, etc) where each bookmark (just like each email and task) can be in one state or context at a time. Tagging is great, but is not suited to this — you have to remove tags as well as add them, which is a faff.
I know I’m not the only person who collects open tabs and needs to make them part of his workflow — I’d be really happy if WNH could help me do that.
(On a different note, I’ve lost the posting bookmarklet for FF3. Can anyone point me to it?)