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March 28, 2005
Tomorrow's World: quote.u.licio.us?
A number of logic- and language-related weblogs have been reporting on the usefulness of del.icio.us, a site to help one collect and manage bookmarks, and citeUlike (glowing references here and here,) a site for collecting and managing references, which allows the importing of BibTeX files. I hear they are very simple to use, which makes it especially galling that I can't get the bookmarklets from either site to work in Safari 1.03. With "log javascript exceptions" turned on in the debug menu I get the error:
:2: TypeError - Value undefined (result of expression encodeURIComponent) is not object. Cannot be called.
But I was thinking that what I really need is citeUlike combined with del.icio.us, with links to print.google.com thrown in, as well as an efficient method for saving quotations. I spend hours leafing though books looking for the place where the author said that thing that I kind of remember. Half the time, when I find it, the author hasn't said it in a sufficiently committed or quotable form anyway. (The notable exception to this is A.J. Ayer, who can be relied upon to say everything you kind of thought he said, in simple and bite-sized chunks.) I am sure it would save me time if I could just log these things when I see them. Even now I am tempted to waste 30 minutes thumbing though Language, Truth and Logic, looking for the perfect quote to support my semi-humourous point...
29/03/05 Update: And this, after a year and a half of perfect contentment with Safari, is how I ended up with Firefox. Relationships are funny things.
Posted by logican at March 28, 2005 06:15 PM
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