Drag and Drop Quick Bookmarks

I have released a drag and drop bookmarks recorder, which is a set of scripts to quickly record links from websites. I have been coding Chain, the application that powers my linkage section, for awhile now and have been trying to figure out the best, fastest, easiest, and most convenient way to record bookmarks. This has led me to a whole bunch of different solutions, the best of which I think is the ability to drag and drop a link in order to bookmark it.

I originally tried to get the script to record links that are on the desktop, my desktop is full of internet shortcuts I have accumulated through the years since I din't want them to get lost in the jungle that is my Firefox bookmarks section. I think this can be done with javascript, it just happens to currently be beyond my javascript ability.

I was, however, delighted to find out you can drag links from Firefox and IE onto a text area and have them show up. So I wrote some scripts that enable a person to drag a link onto a text area and have it be automatically bookmarked. This functionality is an integral part of Chain and I have decided to release it to the public as a standalone set of scripts.

With a little modification, it could be made to upload the link to your del.icio.us account or really, wherever you want. I haven't implemented features like that since it already works for my specific needs.

I am interested to see how other developers can expand this. I usually have a window open in the corner all the time to be able to have Chain quickly bookmark links.

You can use a demo and download the scripts here.

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Digg Search Site Integration

If you mozy on over to the linkage section on my website and click on one of the categories to the right. Which would load a page like this one. You will notice below my links, digg and del.icio.us links are also displayed.

I use my website a lot for my own personal research and edification and my linkage section contains a lot of bookmarks that I check and use on a regular basis. I use my site for research and wanted to expand my research base, so to speak, with knowledge from other websites that I consider vastly superior to my own. So digg was a natural choice.

I have released my digg search class to the world. The class requires php 5. The demo and the available code lets you input a search term and search digg, which doesn't really serve any purpose since you can just search digg at digg's own website. I designed it that way so you can see how it works and how to embed it into your own site. But I intend it to be embedded in the website.

If you do use it, please let me know.

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