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selenayI'm trying out Pinboard at the moment because I'm a thousand years behind the rest of fandom on this. Maybe two thousand.
I've never been able to see the purpose to online bookmarking tools before but then I'll want to bookmark a reclist or an interesting meta post or something along those lines and I'll want to be able to access it on my iPad and on my desktop and...
So I'm trying out Pinboard. It was only after I signed up that I discovered I could hook in my Twitter account and search my Tweets, which I'm pretty impressed with. Twitter doesn't make searching easy. I like the 'unread' and 'private' settings, the tag bundles are a neat idea and the support for fannish uses is very nice to have. Being able to copy the tags other people have used (if I'm copying a bookmark from a user who is particularly good at the tagging thing) is unexpectedly useful and I can see why people are using it so heavily for fic bookmarking.
Not that I'm going to stop using AO3's bookmarking, that system is awesome. But I can definitely see Pinboard being a useful supplement to that. Specifically, I don't like to AO3 bookmark something until I've read it and can see myself wanting to reread or find it again. So I use the 'mark for later' function a lot and the history on AO3 is completely unsearchable.
Which is unhelpful :-( Particularly if I want to go back and write the rec and sort out the bookmark for something awesome from my Kindle and it's buried on page eight of my reading history. Pinboard seems like a good option for that because I can tag things and mark them as unread until I'm sure about what I'm doing with the fic. And I can tag things for download when I'm on my iPad and then do the download when I get on the desktop.
If I get all that history bookmarked and transferred then tagging things up to rec might even be easier: currently I have a list saved on Dropbox that I add to gradually and then write up multiple recs on Tumblr in one afternoon and use the drafts and queue function to get recs for two or three weeks set up. Having the fics bookmarked and tagged so that I just click one tag and a lot of the info I need is right there in front of me would be so much easier.
(Yes, I should transfer all those recs to my own rec site but, uh, I'm lazy and there are a *lot* of my recs on Tumblr now).
Pinboard also seems like the perfect place for bookmarking all those rec lists and meta posts and book rec lists and so on. Most of the time I either give up on refinding those things or I bookmark them on one machine and then forget to read them on another machine. So I'll see how useful Pinboard is for that.
My initial impression is that it will take a little bit of time to get things set up the way I want but will get more useful the more I use it. If I never mention Pinboad again then you'll know it was an unsuccessful trial :-D
I've never been able to see the purpose to online bookmarking tools before but then I'll want to bookmark a reclist or an interesting meta post or something along those lines and I'll want to be able to access it on my iPad and on my desktop and...
So I'm trying out Pinboard. It was only after I signed up that I discovered I could hook in my Twitter account and search my Tweets, which I'm pretty impressed with. Twitter doesn't make searching easy. I like the 'unread' and 'private' settings, the tag bundles are a neat idea and the support for fannish uses is very nice to have. Being able to copy the tags other people have used (if I'm copying a bookmark from a user who is particularly good at the tagging thing) is unexpectedly useful and I can see why people are using it so heavily for fic bookmarking.
Not that I'm going to stop using AO3's bookmarking, that system is awesome. But I can definitely see Pinboard being a useful supplement to that. Specifically, I don't like to AO3 bookmark something until I've read it and can see myself wanting to reread or find it again. So I use the 'mark for later' function a lot and the history on AO3 is completely unsearchable.
Which is unhelpful :-( Particularly if I want to go back and write the rec and sort out the bookmark for something awesome from my Kindle and it's buried on page eight of my reading history. Pinboard seems like a good option for that because I can tag things and mark them as unread until I'm sure about what I'm doing with the fic. And I can tag things for download when I'm on my iPad and then do the download when I get on the desktop.
If I get all that history bookmarked and transferred then tagging things up to rec might even be easier: currently I have a list saved on Dropbox that I add to gradually and then write up multiple recs on Tumblr in one afternoon and use the drafts and queue function to get recs for two or three weeks set up. Having the fics bookmarked and tagged so that I just click one tag and a lot of the info I need is right there in front of me would be so much easier.
(Yes, I should transfer all those recs to my own rec site but, uh, I'm lazy and there are a *lot* of my recs on Tumblr now).
Pinboard also seems like the perfect place for bookmarking all those rec lists and meta posts and book rec lists and so on. Most of the time I either give up on refinding those things or I bookmark them on one machine and then forget to read them on another machine. So I'll see how useful Pinboard is for that.
My initial impression is that it will take a little bit of time to get things set up the way I want but will get more useful the more I use it. If I never mention Pinboad again then you'll know it was an unsuccessful trial :-D
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Date: 2013-04-05 06:48 pm (UTC)I'd have to go back and clean up everything though. But I probably should. It's a damn useful tool for filling in the gaps between AO3, twitter, and facebook.
Yet. I kind of take the long term view, and I always think, "seriously, you're going to want this site bookmarked five years from now?" and of course invariably I won't. I'm not sure if this is me being lazy or profoundly self-away. ...both? :D
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Date: 2013-04-05 08:05 pm (UTC)It's a damn useful tool for filling in the gaps between AO3, twitter, and facebook.
I don't use facebook, but yes to filling the gaps between AO3 and twitter :-D
I take the short-term view on this - will I want to refer to that article or find that fic again in the next month or two? Is that article something I don't have time to read right now right now but might read tonight or tomorrow? Do I want to attach some tags to that bookmark for when I can only remember "It was that great coffee shop AU"? If the answer is yes to any of that then I've got to find some way to bookmark it that isn't in Firefox or Safari and where I might have some hope of finding it again.
I try to keep my local, Firefox/Safari bookmarks just to the things I use frequently, so fics and articles and so forth don't get saved there. Pinboard *might* be the solution to that so I'm giving it a go, anyway.