Where do you keep your links until you get around to blogging that idea that is brewing in your head?
Some of the things I write about just need to come out for my sanity. But sometimes they roll around in my mind for a while, brewing and stewing. I read an interesting article, and think that I want to address it, but feel that the post is not ready to spring forth full-formed from my mind. And then I see another post on a related topic. Ok, great, more fodder for the mill. But ... where do I keep this list of articles and links until I am ready to use them? Right now I have a half million (or a half dozen) tabs open in Firefox, so I can keep doing other things without losing reference to or intention to write about the articles I found so interesting. I could bookmark the articles, but I fear I'd never find them, since my bookmarks run off the page. (Well, Ok, I COULD organize the bookmarks but isn't that a little bit like organizing the junk drawer?)
Any tips for the bloggy neophyte?
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I am famous for writing notes all over the place, but then losing them. Recently, I put a notepad in my bedroom, living roof, office, kitchen, purse and car. then, wherever I am, I can write it out for later. Of course, I often write things and then when looking back over them have NO idea what i was thinking. :)
I don't use it, but that's what http://del.icio.us/ is for.
Yeah, that's what delicious is for, but I've never used it either.
Hmmm, if these links are for future posts, you can create new posts and and save the post as a draft, what about that? Then, when you're ready to write the post, they'll be there.
Don't add them as a link, though, put the URL in the body of the post since the links only go live when the post is published. Then as you're writing your post you transform it into a link.
I don't know if this helps, but there you go...
Thanks for the tips.
Bella,
If I left notes around my house, I'm sure they would get up and walk away by themselves. Everything else in the house seems to do so. ;)
Karen,
I was wondering what delicious was, that and skirt and technorati and ... I'm sure I'll figure it out when I need to.
Lillian,
Thanks for the tip. AD suggested the same thing. So, I started writing that post with all the links, but it will take a while to put it in publishable form.
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