The newest addition to my regularly used applications is the cheerily named WebnoteHappy. This fresh indie Mac app is a bookmark manager with excellent del.icio.us integration. I’m excited to talk about it partly because it integrates some key features I hoped for in a del.icio.us client after discovering Cocoalicious.
These features are far too sensible and obvious for me to attempt to take any credit for them, regardless if you are a Mac user with too many bookmarks I highly recommend you check this application out.
My last rant on the subject of a dream del.icio.us client concluded with a musing on how I would like to see a tag browsing interface used as an aid for assigning tags, rather than just browsing. After using happily bookmarking with WebnoteHappy for a couple of weeks I had an idea of how that could possibly be done.
In a nutshell I’d like to see the tag browser and webnote listing to update as I edit the tags for a given bookmark. The purpose being to provide valuable information that is likely to influence my selection of tags:
Some will disregard these concerns as problems with categories not tags. Personally I’d like to know how unique my tagging of a particular website is. Tags becomes less useful as a tool for filtering my links if I have hundreds of sites tagged with the same tags. Similarly, if I fail to tag two sites of related subject matter with common tags, my tags will be not be useful for grouping my links. The current official browser based pop-up window for posting to del.icio.us does this to a degree by suggesting the most popular tags for a given link that is already in the database. What I’m suggesting doesn’t leverage the power of the ‘group mind’, but it ought to provide another valuable context - my existing collection of links and tags.
I’ve attempted to demonstrate this idea with a series screenshots of WebnoteHappy. I made a few clicks between each frame to roughly replicate what I envisage happening automatically.
Check out WebnoteHappier.
If there are any del.icio.us posting interfaces out there that already do this I’d love to hear about them!
Oliver Boermans works as an interactive media designer in Adelaide, South Australia. This is his web interface — a place for Ollie to rant, reflect and share. Read more about Ollie
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