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del.icio.us Topdecker – waste time faster
Posted by Mike Sugarbaker at 12:03 am on 9/14/2005
Do you like to bookmark web pages and show them to people? Use del.icio.us, then. Do you like to mess around with what your browser shows you and do cool stuff as a result? Use Greasemonkey, then. (Do you like to do either of the above? Use Firefox, then.) Would you like to bring all this together and see why I’m writing this post?
del.icio.us Topdecker leverages all of the above to let you quickly and easily bring up whatever web page you’ve most recently bookmarked (on del.icio.us, that is) with a given tag. I find this sort of thing handy when I’ve just nailed a page about something unusual (say, with the incredibly unstoppable Super-Fast Delicious Bookmarklet) and I still want to do stuff with it (like pastebomb it to my friends via AIM), but don’t have the URL handy (because, er, that’s why I put it in del.icio.us).
Just add it to your user scripts per Greasemonkey’s instructions, then follow the instructions at the top of the script itself to exploit Firefox’s “bookmark keyword” functionality and complete the transaction – “close the loop,” as they say. As the Super-Fast Thingy up there demonstrates, we have so many small pieces now, just waiting to be loosely joined. It feels like power… but that’s illusory… but it’s not too bad these days to have power over illusion.
Do you not care about any of the above? Stare at this for a while. Maybe you’ll feel better.