Lesson #5 - Collecting ideas
As you are browsing the web, you will see web sites that appeal to you. Maybe you like the theme of the site, or the site has a feature you like, or you find a page that sparks an idea. It can be very helpful for you to save these ideas in a list so you can refer back to them.
There is a very easy way to create the list, if you don't mind it being public:
- Get the Google tool bar
- Start a blog on blogger.com
- Every time you visit a web site that interests you, use the Blogger button on the toolbar to add the site quickly to your blog. The toolbar makes it incredibly easy to add an entry (it takes about 5 seconds).
If you don't want anyone seeing your ideas, do the same kind of thing using a document stored on your hard disk. Simply add the URL to the document every time you find a cool site.
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Another cool place to keep bookmarks is del.icio.us -- you can add multiple tags to each url you save and a short comment. It's also public, but it can be useful in that it's easy to find other users using similar tags.
Another great way to keep track of ideas, as well as bits and pieces you come across on the web, is to use Gmail as your "second brain".
It allows you to:
1. easily store ideas
2. easily find stuff when you need it
Something that I have found really useful is to journal my ideas. I bought this program not long ago and I cant help but plug it here. I can cut and paste things SUPER easy with this program.
I second what Anon said- Gmail is my way to organize.
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I agree with Annon and Dawn. Here is my recipe to manage bookmarks with GMail.
Here is what I do:
(I assume you have a gmail account and you have logged on to your account say "Y ourGmailAdd@gmail.com")
1) Click on "Create a filter"
2) In the "To:" field type "YourGmailAdd+links@ gmail.com"
3) click "Next Step"
4) Select "Skip the Inbox" and "Apply the label:"
5) From the drop down menu of "Apply the label:" chose "New Label" (this option is the last one, you can find it at the end). Type " Bookmarks" in the pop-up window and say click on "OK".
6) Click on "Create Filter".
Now send your links to "YourGmailAdd+links@gmail.com" with your bookmark information in the content as e-mail. Your mail will skip "Inbox" and get labeled as "Bookmarks". You can access your bookmark by clicking on "Bookmarks" Lable.
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Better yet; Google/Gmail and the new Google toolbar allows you to add bookmarks that stay with your account (can be veiwed on multiple PC's without leaving traces), and can be added and viewed from the blue star labeled 'bookmarks' on the Google toolbar.
This, in turn, is just as quick, yet only you can veiw your pages.
I think I found a site of Web Site Links that is doing something simliar to what is mentioned in this article.
May be I am too simplistic or I do not get the logic of using any of these ways to store URL's. What about using the "bookmark this page" or "my favorites" from your web browser?
Hello I love your information on this topic ... very interesting and I would like to put more on this article .... it's great that people have engaged to do interesting things to do .... thanks
when I'm surfing on the web, I want to save the great good ideas as you mentioned and I don't mind to get public, I will go download this feature and install it thank you!
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