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Linky Sync-y

A bit ago I mentioned my recent usage of del.icio.us and how it helps bridge what I surf and read on my iPhone, to what I could potentially write about on my laptop. What I’ve also been doing is, if I come across any articles while on my iPhone or laptop and want access to them wherever I go, I tag it to del.icio.us., then I can hit up my del.icio.us page and clicky the linky.

I mentioned a couple reasons why I don’t want to bookmark them in Safari (whether on my laptop or using my iPhone). Here are two more…

  1. I don’t use Safari as my default browser on my Laptop.
  2. I tend to bookmark things in my iPhone so that when I tap on the bookmark icon, the first screen has my bookmarks. When I sync my safari browsers on both the iPhone and the Laptop, my bookmarks are moved to the “Bookmark Menu”, which requires me to execute an extra tap. I haven’t taken the time to delve into changing this default setting so I’m not sure if I can control this behavior.

So how do I integrate the web service del.icio.us, my iPhone and my laptop?

Laptop
On my laptop, I use Firefox and have the del.icio.us extension installed.

iPhone
On my iPhone, I use Leaflets as my “jumping off” point. It has a start page icon for del.icio.us so I just tap on that and get a list of my bookmarks.

When I want to tag an article, I either use a “Tag this to del.icio.us” link on the article, or I, currently, use the Lazy Sheep bookmarklet. I’m still in the process of finalizing which bookmarklet to use. The next one I’m going to try out would probably be the one listed on Quick Online Tips.

So far this setup works pretty well and while I could just bookmark my del.icio.us page in my iPhone Safari browser, I like the list of my bookmarks that Leaflets generate because it’s fast all the time (optimized for the EDGE network).

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2 Responses to “Linky Sync-y”

  1. Dave says:

    It’s cool that you can bookmark something with a single click but how hard is it to retrieve or navigate to the bookmark when you want to use it?

    Is there a single tap to a drop-down menu of categories or do you need to click several times to get to the bookmark?

    July 25, 2007 at 5:28 pm
  2. Arlan says:

    Hey Dave. How hard is it? Not hard at all, actually.

    On the iPhone, it’s just two taps and I see a list of my links. Basically, the first page that shows up when I start the iPhone’s Safari is the Leaflets web application, which has the icon/link to del.icio.us. So all I have to do is tap that icon and it takes me directly to my del.icio.us page with all my bookmarks. One tap to start Safari and another to tap the del.icio.us icon.

    On my laptop, I just click the del.icio.us icon inserted when I installed the Firefox extension and I’m directed to my page. Easy peasy.

    One of the great features of Leaflets is its optimization to the iPhone’s Safari browser. It’s built around Web Standards and coded in a way that it loads up fast, even on the EDGE network. So I have fast easy access whether I’m connected to a Wi-Fi hotspot or not.

    July 25, 2007 at 6:12 pm