Thursday, November 5, 2009

Three Bookmarklets I need


Since becoming a full time chrome user I've begun to see the power of using bookmarklets. A Bookmarklet is a small bit of javascript that you can put in your toolbar to perform some task on the current page your looking at.

InstaPaper
InstaPaper let's you quickly save and read articles that you want to read later but don't have time to right now. It does more than bookmarking the site because it tracks what you've read and syncs it on all your computers and devices. There's an iPhone app that lets you read the articles you've read. Once you've read an article InsaPaper archives the link so you have it for future reference while keeping your current queue uncluttered.

The bookmarklet lets you quickly save an article for future reading, without having to leave the page. This is super useful if something looks interesting but turns out to be a lot longer than you were anticipating.

Bookmark on Delicious
I've started to bookmark interesting links on delicious. This is a nice way to organize and share links with people. Without tagging I tend create a huge, flat list of bookmarks on each browser I use, on each computer I use. Since my alter ego is a web developer I tend to use a lot of browsers on all my computers on all the different VMs, so this can quickly fail to scale properly.

This bookmarklet lets me quickly save a page to delicious without having to leave the interesting page I'm currently on.

Readability
When I do get around to reading the articles I want to read Readability makes it much easier on the eyes. This reduces clutter on the page by doing a very nice job of removing the ads, images and making the text uniform. You can configure what it looks like to suit your preferences.

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