tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654290647568421843.post3927665091181852752..comments2023-07-08T09:55:56.772-05:00Comments on Shelved in the W's: Why can't del.icio.us do A to Z?Mark Rabnetthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10118089801885879833noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654290647568421843.post-89250356361056556362008-06-24T10:01:00.000-05:002008-06-24T10:01:00.000-05:00I'm not super tech savvy, and I may have completel...I'm not super tech savvy, and I may have completely misunderstood what your post was about, but I too was looking to alphabetize my del.icio.us tags in order to create a list of resources for use (althoug mine are going to be republished rss feeds on a library webpage).<BR/><BR/>Here's what I did:<BR/><BR/>Go to my del.icio.us page and click on the tag I want to make into a list (form your post:blogs.nurschool). Grab the feed url for the tag you need(either by clicking rss icon in address bar or using the bookmarks>subscribe to this page option then copying the url out of the address bar).<BR/><BR/>I am not a programmer, so I took the feed url and plugged it into a javascript converter. I used feed2js.org. Once you're at feed2js.org, click the build tab, enter the url of the feed you just grabbed from del.icio.us into the box, and click no under "show channel" option. I also typed "0" under the "show/hide item descriptions" option because I don't need them for my purposes. <BR/><BR/>At this point I clicked generate javascript because I actually need it. It seemed from your post that you don't need it. You can go straight the "preview feed" button. This will show you a hyperlinked list of all your del.icio.us urls in a pop-up window. Highlight the whole page (using ctrl+a)and paste into word.<BR/><BR/>Once in word, highlight just the urls you want alphabetized, and use the table>insert>table option to put them into a table. Use table>sort to alphabetize, and presto: an alphabetized list of links to your tagged blogs in del.icio.us. <BR/><BR/>By now, del.icio.us may have a way of alphabetizing directly I haven't picked up on. If you've found it, let me know! If not, see if this works for your purposes.Yemilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00800938802707358223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654290647568421843.post-40091317129756632932008-01-20T10:14:00.000-06:002008-01-20T10:14:00.000-06:00"Librarians are perhaps overly given to the love o..."Librarians are perhaps overly given to the love of alphabetical order..."<BR/><BR/>Actually, librarians are overly given to the love of subject classification. (and catalog librarians are obsessed by it.) Alphabetical order just helps tidy the collection up after it's been sorted by Dewey or Library of Congress categories. <BR/><BR/>This actually applies to Del.icio.us bookmark management, of course. We're all becoming amateur classification specialists and learning about the inefficiencies that crop up when classification labels aren't standardized. <BR/><BR/>Thanks for your interesting post. I'm sure many of us are benefiting from your tips<BR/><BR/>Robert L.<BR/>North CarolinaWake Techhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11467462051094587082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2654290647568421843.post-81753493266937611282008-01-07T12:22:00.000-06:002008-01-07T12:22:00.000-06:00Thanks for posting these details about your though...Thanks for posting these details about your thought processes - this is interesting and helpful for me to read as the person who wrote most of those Delicious help pages. :) Yes, built-in alphabetical sort is coming in the future - you're right that this should be easy, not multi-step hard like it is now - and we're thinking about adding improved export options too.<BR/><BR/>The new version will also have some of your other wishes: (1) 1000 characters for notes instead of the current 255 characters, (2) numbered page navigation [more like Flickr] instead of "earlier" and "later" links, and (9) contextual search.<BR/><BR/>It doesn't yet include the rest, but I can try to help explain why: (3) this could cause issues for users with very large numbers of bookmarks; (4) we've definitely been thinking about letting people make bundles on-the-fly, but we haven't figured out a reasonable user-interface for that yet; (5) we want to be careful about complicating the bookmark-saving process; (6) deleting items can't be *too* easy or people might do it accidentally; (7) yes, this is on the todo list; (8) this is a possibility for the future, but it's a lower priority than a bunch of other stuff.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, it's still useful to hear what you want for the future of Delicious even if we don't plan to implement those things exactly - every piece of feedback that goes into my brain comes out again somehow in Delicious eventually!<BR/><BR/>-Britta Gustafson, Delicious community manager internBrittahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15861502466656508513noreply@blogger.com