Digital Cleaning
It's funny how badly having things untidy can unnerve me. My wife gets tickled at some of my OCD-ness qualities. Example: all the video games and movies on the shelf need to stay in their cases and be in alphabetical order. I feel accomplished when they're like this -- I feel unnerved when they aren't.
I try to keep my bookmarks in my browsers (which stay synced by XMarks!) organized as well -- but all too often they end up overflowing all over the place. I'll find a nifty site in GReader or my Twitter feeds, bookmark it for later observation, and there it will stay for months and months. The nice thing is I'm hoping Pinboard will be the last piece of the puzzle in this workflow.
Currently, this is how my bookmark bar looks:
The first 3 bookmarklets will let me take a given URL and send it to Pinboard, Instapaper, or my WordPress blog. The different folders are self explanatory: Daily for daily sites I use all the time, Main for sites I'll visit a few times a week, Admin for bookmarks to all the servers at work, Reference for any online manuals I'll need for different things.
The last 3 folders are really a thrown together hodge-podge of all kinds of links to anything and everything I've found over the years. Now, instead of keeping them in a bookmark bar, I'll move the ones that are work keeping to Pinboard. It's a very nice bookmarking service that gives me a taggable, publishable, searchable database of all my different bookmarks. It even gives me an RSS feed of my latest submitted bookmarks, which reside in that widget in the upper right over there. So after this post I'll start going through and either deleting a lot of this junk, or submitting it to Pinboard for a permanent home.
Sidenote: I found a nice, clean theme that I really like for the site -- Lightword. I may try playing around with editing the theme and/or even rolling my own theme at some point. It would give me an excuse to finally learn CSS, I suppose.
At any rate, hey: four days, four posts!
My Pinboard Feed
- Taking Apart the Fuji X100 | New York Photography Blog May 19, 2012
- Story of a Five Year Old Avenger, Meeting The Avengers | g33kWatch May 17, 2012
- A Miracle Squared: Celebrating The Greatness Of Bo Jackson - SBNation.com May 16, 2012
- iTunes - Books - Paperless by David Sparks May 10, 2012
- Why You Don't Have Enough Time Starting a Photography Small Business May 10, 2012
- The frequent fliers who flew too much - latimes.com May 8, 2012
- The Omni Group's videos on Vimeo May 6, 2012
- Connecting to the iTunes Store. May 6, 2012
- one webpage (The MacSparky OmniFocus Screencasts) May 6, 2012
- Why I look at OmniFocus May 6, 2012