Ideas from Mark Stout

I amassed something like 4000 bookmarks in Delicious before I moved them to Evernote .  I was saddened yesterday to hear what turned out to be rumor only, that Yahoo was shutting down the service. Today, the Delicious Blog suggests they will seek a buyer for the service. Meanwhile, Evernote, having previously disabled the Delicious import I used when I transitioned, published a new method for importing from Delicious. My only regret about not using Delicious was that I was no longer participating in a community.  There was a social aspect of sharing your bookmarks in public.  When you searched Delicious, you could tell how many others had posted the same bookmark--effectively a recommendation. When you found someone who bookmarked on a topic you liked, you could see all their bookmarks on that topic.  I found a lot of gems doing that. Of course I could still get that information after moving my bookmarks, but was no longer participating in building...

Quite a while ago, I imported all my Delicious bookmarks into Evernote.  I loved having all my information in one place, and did not want my bookmarks to be in a different place. I gave up two things when I imported my bookmarks: Delicious' social aspects and Delicious' ability to warn that I'd already saved that URL. I'm sure my Evernote now has many duplicate URL's captured in it. I'd been hoping someone would write an app that would scan my Evernote database and identify duplicate URL's, or that I'd find the time and talent to create one.  I'm still waiting. Evernote themselves has made things a bit easier going forward.  Their latest Web Clipper for Chrome shows you all the times you've captured URL's from the site you are currently on.  At least if take a moment to review those before committing to the Clip, I can avoid adding duplicates in the future. Unfortunately, if you haven't imported your Delicious bookmarks into E...