Bookmarking the web
Back in 1999, I started working in an office and I quickly discovered that bookmarks stored in the web browser didn't work for me... I needed to be able to access my bookmarks from home, work, or wherever I was on the net. So I wrote a simple bookmark manager CGI script and stored my bookmarks on my personal web site.
Roll forward to 2008... nine years later, I'm still using the same software and I have over 2400 bookmarks. Many of them I don't use anymore, though occasionally I'll come 'round to a hobby again and use them, updating the inevitably dead and changed ones.
Over time, as the number of bookmarks and complexity of organizing them grew, I've found myself dissatisfied with my software and I've looked at a few bookmark sites and CGI scripts. None of them really do what I want. I know what I want to do, but I don't have the time to learn JavaScript and to do a major overhaul of the bookmark backend, so I've just lived with it.
Recently, my boss pointed out the Firefox plugin for del.icio.us. Now I'd looked at del.icio.us before, but I really didn't have much use for a bookmarking site that could only show five links on the screen at a time. (Sure, you can show up to 20 on a page, but with menus and whatnot....) My "quick shortcuts" main page of my bookmark software has 163 links... all shown in a single screen-full.
The Firefox del.icio.us toolbar might do what I want... it's not quite 163 links in one screenful, but it does emulate the Firefox bookmarks toolbar. With tags and tag bundles, it looks like I can get it to organize them in a reasonable manner. And it will address one of the big shortcomings of my own hierarchically-structured tool... bookmarks that ought to show up in more than one category, but don't.
So I'm going to take a look at that. Maybe it'll suck, but it looks like it'll have the potential to do what I need.