LinkLogr
When I have a spare moment at work, I browse through news articles throughout the day and also get some emailed to me from friends. Work sometimes comes in spurts, so I often get interrupted and don’t get time to read through whole articles. I ended up emailing links to myself to read when I got home. After a while I decided it was quicker to be able to use a bookmarklet to post a link to a website, so I made myself a page where I could dump links throughout the day. I found it to be quite useful, so I decided to expand on the idea. I spent all of yesterday making LinkLogr (apologies for the cheesy Web 2.0-style name). Hopefully some people might find it to be a useful tool.
Hi Stu, sounds a lot like del.icio.us, which is what I currently use for the same task. Click add link, tag it with various tags and done. I use furtherreading as my primary come back to tag, but the beauty of del.icio.us comes when going back to read items. You can view furtherreading, and then drill down to the next level. Often I’ll tag something furtherreading video, and when looking at what to catch up on when it’s late at night, will just select the appropriate tag to re-display.
i’ll investigate your app in more detail. You’re pretty good with developing things that fill a need, so maybe I’m missing something.
Also, whilst talking about Web2.0, your XSLT/RSS Feed on hearye.org appears to has a few issues. It doesn’t parse links or images at all, and it chops input after 500? characters. All things that make it very hard to read your blog clearly.
Peace,
Wade
Hi Wade, I don’t think you’re missing anything – del.icio.us is a much more extensive and better solution – LinkLogr is a basic, lightweight thing. It was originally just a personal site, but I adapted it for multi-user use. I was also going to add a feature where you could download a PDF of all the unread webpages you’d logged (so you could take a printout on the ride home), but I had a bit of a problem getting that feature working… hopefully I’ll figure out the problem and get it working soon.
As for my RSS feed, it just takes the first 500 characters of the post, including HTML tags and dumps them out verbatim… I really should get around to cleaning that up! (I didn’t know people were actualy using it! :)