Robert Vrabel

How many times have you wished you had your bookmarks with you either at work, or a friends house? Most people use the old method of bookmarks using the one built directly inside of the web browser. Lets take a different approach to see how we can store our bookmarks online so they can be accessed from anywhere.

Online Bookmarking

1. Download Firefox (explained here).
2. Install the del.icio.us extension.

Upon installing the extension, firefox will need to restart and you will see new buttons.

The new buttons are the “Del.icio.us” home button, and a button caled “Tag”. To use this, hit the del.icio.us home button and sign up for the website. Once you are signed up, you simply just hit “Tag” on a web page you want to bookmark. Upon doing this, you can type in (or select recommended tags) to categorize your bookmarks. The more tags you create, the easier it will be to find your bookmarks in the future.

Finding Your Bookmarks

Visit http://del.icio.us/yourusername to visit your bookmarks. To see an example, visit my bookmarks. You will see on the right hand side a bunch of tags, which you can click to filter the list down to those bookmarks. Now all of your bookmarks are online and can be accessed from anywhere.

Tips

1. You can hide your bookmarks so they are not open to the public. Just checkout the “settings” page when visiting http://del.icio.us/
2. You can subscribe to someones bookmarks by visiting their page at http://del.icio.us/username .
3. You can add friends to your account by also visiting their page.
4. You can recommend a bookmark for a friend by clicking “Tag”, then under “your network” select the person’s name and hit “save”.