Comments on: Plant ID Resources

By: miconia

miconia — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:38:21 +0000

Thanks for both your comments. Now that I’ve learned about Google Bookmarks, I like them. I like being able to access them from the Google toolbar on either of my computers without going to a separate web site to do so.

However, del.icio.us seems better for tagging – I agree with max on that. I think I just went overboard and imported ALL my bookmarks to del.icio.us. I’ll see if I can’t create a new del.icio.us account just for botany sites. That should simplify things.

Also, I just found on Flickr, in the What Plant is That group, a discussion on Plant ID resources. Some really good suggestions there.

By: max

max — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:58:59 +0000

Oh, check out wists, which adds a visual component to the del.icio.us-type bookmarking and tagging.

By: max

max — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:21:25 +0000

I started using del.icio.us for my botany bookmarks about a year ago, and I think it works better than any of the alternatives, as long as you tag early and often. I do wish it had more elaborate sorting capabilities.

By: miconia

miconia — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 00:27:38 +0000

You’re certainly right about tags. I started out being way too general (“botany” as a tag?). So it might serve to go through my bookmarks and add more specific tags.

I’d not heard of Google Bookmarks, oddly. So thanks for the tip. I’ll look into that.

By: jbruno

jbruno — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 15:09:25 +0000

I’ve been having difficulty with this as well, though my problem spans a number of different topics.

I think Google Bookmarks works pretty well as long as every page is tagged correctly. I can then search for relevant material by category.

Probably not much help, but let me know if anyone comes up with a satisfying solution; I could use the info as well.

P.S. – I like the new layout!