Using Social Bookmarking Sites for GTD

Ken Clark has an interesting list of 11 ways you can use Del.icio.us and other social bookmarking sites to get things done. For example,

Read / Review – When I come across web content that I do not have the time to read, I tag it with @readreview and move on.  I review the @readreview list as part of my daily or weekly reviews and then remove the tag once it has been read.

I do something similar with e-books I’d like to read offline. These days it seems like everyone is putting their novel or short story collection as a CC download. Typically I run across links to these when I don’t have time to actually go download the file and transfer it to my Sony Reader so I simply bookmark it with an @download tag. Same thing with MP3s I want to go back and download later. Then I simply remove the tag once I’ve gone back and downloaded it.

Most of the ideas Clark has can easily be adapted to different contexts and purposes, and is well worth reading in full.

Scuttle – An Open Source Del.icio.Us Clone

I really like Del.icio.us, but have this aversion to hosting my data on other sites (though, to its credit Del.icio.us does make it easy to get your data in and out of its system). Enter Scuttle which is just an open source clone of Del.icio.us.

It requires PHP and MySQL but as long as you’ve got a server equipped with those, it is easy to install and configure. Like Del.icio.us, you can mark bookmarks as either public or private, add tags, get an RSS feed of your bookmarks, etc. It also comes with a nice Javascript bookmarklet so you can quickly bookmark sites while you’re browsing.

I’ve got my Scuttle install at http://brian.carnell.com/boomarks/