Wednesday 2 August 2006

Textual bookmarks

Firefox has a feature to allow quick submissions of queries to search engines. You assign a keyword to a bookmark and add a placeholder for the query text. I've started using that feature on regular bookmarks as a nicknaming system. That means now I can just type a nickname for a website, eg "blogger" and go straight there. It's faster than selecting bookmarks from the menu, faster than Google, and easier than remembering site names too.

Mokalus of Borg

PS - Of course, Blogger is a slightly redundant example.
PPS - A better one is "calendar" for http://calendar.google.com.

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