Its Getting Crowded Out Here!

Yep! Thats what my Firefox toolbar looks like these days. Bookmarklets are a convenient way to post stuff to various sites. I use it for sharing links with the ebiquity blog via del.icio.us, post something to friendfeed, check news every now and then and right now I am testing this bookmarking site called Gyzork.  A few other plugins I have installed are del.icio.us, socialbrowse and stumbleupon. I used to have a lot more but couldnt keep up with all the stuff going on in my browser on a single monitor! :-(

Perhaps its time to rethink how we use bookmarklets. Some thoughts on this:

• It would be great to have icons for bookmarklets
• I need a bookmarklet 'stack feature' -- a place where I can organize bookmarklets.
• A listing of all the bookmarklets for different categories (GTD, News, Links, Blogs, etc...) would be handy for power users.
• Maybe we even need a simple way to post a link on one place and have it pushed to other sites

Its getting crowded out here! I am wondering if there is a better way to manage this somehow?

[Thanks Anthony Vito, for some of the discussions that led to this post]

Comments

[Drew Farris]

I found I'm suffering from the same problem when it comes to bookmarklets and needing to stack and organize them. I've started putting folders in my bookmark bar to keep bookmarklets organized based on function and that seems to work pretty well. That doesn't really help me with browser extensions that install new buttons near the location bar, but it's a start.

It would be nice if the browser developers would acknowledge bookmarklets as something more than your average bookmark. They're easy to use for end-users, and they fill a significant hole for developers who don't want spend the time developing and testing a full-fledged browser-specific extension. They are a great way to expose a web-apps functions to a multiple browser implementations at one time. If the browser 'understood' they were different from plain old bookmarks, it would be the first step to providing better ways to organize them.

Thanks for trying out Gyzork! It would be great to hear what you think. You qualify as an early-early adopter.