HOLY SHIT.

[permetaform]

::hyperventiliates::

So like, sometimes I dreamed of being able to read a fic and, y'know, mentally rec it to my flist.

I think this is the next best thing.

Holy. Fucking. Shit.

I can link to stuff with just several mouse-clicks. ::awe::

::fucking awe:: I've been playing with this for the past hour. There's already over 139 cross-referenced recs in there.

cross-referenced.

I.

This.

::boggle::

I think. I think I'll actually move the entire body of permetaform_rec onto there because holy fucking shit. cross-referencing.

::SQUEE::

Comments

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

Del.icio.us is very, very cool. I've been considering it for my own recs stuff. But I have a couple concerns... if you happen to figure out anything that addresses them, can you fill me in?

1) Is there a way to archive/back up/save a copy of all of the items you've bookmarked in del.icio.us along with the metadata (which tags you've assigned them)? Because yes, I am paranoid and anything that can't be backed up can cease to exist with alarming ease.

2) I've been trying to figure out a good way of organizing what tags to use so that I can easily mark episode-related fics, pairing-specific fics, character-specific fics... and I couldn't decide if I wanted to try to include either a small summary of the fic, or if I wanted to include why I personally liked the fic... there's a spot for "description" and a spot for "notes" and if I can remember to keep those two things set aside for the summary and my rec reason(s), maybe that would work... you're not using tags to mark which fics are episode-specific, are you? Other than that, I think you've figured out a system which does most of what I want with the tags, descriptions and notes, right?

The other thing is that I have been wanting to use del.icio.us for more than one fandom, and figuring out how to standardize the tags so that that will continue to scale was... a daunting project.

But youre squeefulness might just be enough to tip me over into solving these issues and getting my recs caught up. That would be really, really nice...

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

http://del.icio.us/sturmtanzer is me, btw. And I'm still trying to figure out if I want to use that for recs, or if I would be better off setting up a second account for recs. I'd really like to only have one... I think. Hrmmm.

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

ahahahaha. i've just started doing the same thing!

[permetaform]

1) errr, not sure, but I vaguely remember something like that

2) tags in del.icio.us work without needing commas (as in lj) instead use periods to separate words, the notes allow a fair amount of words, and it automatically tracks how many other people linked to it as well. also, you can just click on "copy" on someone else's links and add your own info and then "submit" and it appears on your own list. also? you can select tags with a mouseclick. I cannot. get.over.this.

actually I'm tempted to go ahead and do the FandomPairing type...I think there's an option that can go back and change all your previous tags too...

[nightengale.livejournal.com]

*I* am hyperventilating attempting to not giggle loud enough to wake the deaf roomie. (Yes, medically deaf w/out aids)

You? Have the soul of a library card catalog, or possibly the child of a Rolodex and an Excel sheet. *snerk* I say this with all my love, of course.

Not to mention this will make it all *so* much yummier on our parts. ^^ ♥

[permetaform]

ooo! who are you?

[permetaform]

ooo! who are you?, on del.icio.us I mean?

[permetaform]

::adds your feed:: =D

[permetaform]

chaos has a pattern, I have a pattern, it's bridging the gap between my pattern and chaos' wherein lies difficulty. del.icio.us is being AWESOME about the bridging...::BOUNCES::

[elke-tanzer.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have another look through these tomorrow when I'm more awake, but...

http://pchere.blogspot.com/2005/02/absolutely-delicious-complete-tool.html
http://rentzsch.com/notes/backingUpDelicious

The updates at the bottom of that second page look very, very interesting.

I haven't figured out bundling yet. But I'm getting there. :-)

[unrequitedangst.livejournal.com]

For backing up bookmarks: there are a couple of ways of doing it, but the simplest way is to go to your del.icio.us page, make sure you're logged in, and find the 'settings' link on the upper right hand of your screen. (It should be next to the 'logged in as ___' text.)

Once you're displaying that, there should be a bar on the right hand side of the screen that has a bunch of options. One should be 'export'. Click that and another window that says HTML export should come up. Make sure both boxes are selected, then click the 'export to HTML' button. You should be able to save this file to your hard drive and then import it with whatever browser you use with intact tags and description. (To be fair, I've only done this with Firefox myself, but the URLS and metadata survive in the HTML file and the bookmarks were almost perfectly clean when I tried reimporting them into my browser.)

(Er! Sorry to hijack this thread, but I thought this might help a little, as a lot of the solutions in the sites you listed below are way, way technical and complete overkill.)

[elfiepike.livejournal.com]

http://del.icio.us/heartingthing

it's not at all set up, yet, just a few things, but i figured i'd get the ball rolling. :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/ari_/]

I just discovered del.icio.us late Saturday, and now I'm busy moving and organizing all the recs I had posted at ari_recs, and tagging everything I see that I want to read, and that I have read and want to rec, and oh oh oh oh oh - mad love.

I'm going to be playing with this for quite some time - especially since I found it just now when my life is going to get a lot busier than it has been. *pout*

[arete.livejournal.com]

Yes, del.icio.us is quite fun, isn't it? Mine is http://del.icio.us/arete2 (http://del.icio.us/arete2), I think you can check my subscriptions... they're mostly there to grab everybody's SGA recs. If not, I'll send you a list of the several people I have subscribed to get almost all the good fics out of SGA. Uh, you know what subscriptions are, right?

[coffeeandink.livejournal.com]

You can also add the RSS feed for del.icio.us pages to your Friends list, whether it's someone's entire account or a particular tag -- scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on the "RSS" button for the URL.

I am hoping no one does this with mine, as I have attempted no organization whatsoever.

[niqui.livejournal.com]

diu will eat your brain. have you discovered the inbox yet? :-)

http://del.icio.us/nbjelica is me-as-fangirl...

[permetaform]

XD apparently I'd already found you and added you to my inbox. I was linksurfing...

[permetaform]

doooode, read the bottom of the post before this one. I TOTALLY don't mind thread hijacks. =D

[permetaform]

ooooo, you have aLOT linked! ::adores::

[unrequitedangst.livejournal.com]

Hee!

del.icio.us is eating my soul -- I just started using it a month ago to keep track of the SGA 'fic I was reading and now I'm so in love with it that I'm actually going back and systematically indexing all the fanfiction I've saved to my hard drive over the past two years.

(And since I'm already doing the hijack thing and you mentioned it earlier, would you like me to walk you through how to do tag renames or anything of the sort?

I'm actually thinking about writing up a comprehensive guide to del.icio.us, fandom-version, since all the guides I've seen so far are very 'well, this is del.icio.us, go play!' and totally leave out the practical stuff like tag bundling and how to import bookmarks onto your hard drive but I'm not really sure what kinds of technical questions people would have or whether or not there would be any demand for that kind of thing.)

[morgandawn.livejournal.com]

is there an easy way to move your booksmarks from firefox en masse - or is this done one by one...

[insertcliche.livejournal.com]

/poke hey girl. can't get to you on the phone, so trying the ever-present LJ community. get together sometime? ;) i'm out of inspiration and in dire need of an ear, a mouth, and a hot cup of chava.

[permetaform]

argh sorry, was work thing, call you tomorrow? I'll try to get you around lunchtime or after 9pm.

[insertcliche.livejournal.com]

either or...i should be doing nothing...except if you do after nine, you'll have to do after ten...cuz i'm working til then ^^:

[permetaform]

::blinks:: oooh, good thought. ::goes to see::

[permetaform]

'k