My Rules of Tagging (with Del.icio.us)
03.12.07Filed Under: Product
My Rules of Tagging (with Del.icio.us)Just finished cleaning up my del.icio.us tags as they looked like this screenshot to the left after 1+ yr. of using del.icio.us as my primary bookmarking tool. Over the year here are some simple rules I developed — hopefully these help:
1.) Generalized over specific
- you’ll never recall a specific term like “skyline” — rather use “bayarea
2.) Less is more
- no more then 2 tags per bookmark
- why? because this will help avoid violating rule #1 which leads to hundreds if not thousands of tags which leads to tag chaos
3.) Don’t bookmark blogs
- Use a good RSS reader instead that has a favorites feature — hmmm…perhaps these products should be integrated.
- Don’t import bookmarks from your desktop
- Applies to users of the del.icio.us browser extension
4.) The tags applied during the import process basically break all the rules above
- Plus if this is your work computer most of my bookmarks will contain private URLs that will either make no sense to the vast majority of users.
Looking forward to del.icio.us 2.0 and another good of year tasty del.icio.us bookmarking…
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