This afternoon I was reviewing the tools available on Blogger. Looking at the BlogThis button it struck me that it combined with a new blog should be an excellent tool for taking notes on my Internet wanderings. I need something better than bookmarks to keep track of interesting web pages and sites. I just opened up Bookmark Manager and opened all the folders and counted bookmarks. Two hundred and forty one bookmarks. I all so have a web page stored on my wife's machine and bookmarked on mine that is nothing but older bookmarks(that I still use). I am not going to go count them right now but I would guess over one hundred and fifty stashed there. No wonder I am starting to do the senior thing of knowing that I just looked at that page two days ago and I bookmarked it now where is it and can I find it with out doing a full search through the main Google site.
My system is a Linux Ubuntu operating system so Google desktop search will not work. I am going to try using the BlogThis button to to put URLs and a snippet from the page plus any notes on this blog. It will help if I learn about and use tags effectively. I am going to start by visiting a bunch (or all) of my bookmarks and BlogThis with them. I already had button up on the links bar that will open a Google site search for the site I am at. So it will be a sequence of; open Mike'sScratchboard and scan the past twenty four hours entries, use the tag link, or use the Google Site Search button and the right search terms. Once a data set gets past a certain size search software is faster than scanning. This is a small data set but large enough to lose things in.
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