Comments for delicious tip of the day

Comment from Lalitree on 2004-10-06

2004-10-07T00:00:31Z

I'm also fond of the del.icio.us inbox feature--subscribe to a friend's links or all of the links from a certain tag (say I want to see whenever anyone tags something "css"), and it all shows up on my inbox page. Really useful.

Comment from Eric Abell on 2004-10-07

2004-10-08T00:20:09Z

I have recently started to use del.icio.us and have just completed a subset of my existing bookmarks under Safari. I would agree that this is a very useful tool, especially with things like del.icio.us2Safari.

I have noticed some strange behavior with the Search command. When executed from the page, it doesn't seem to want to retrieve bookmarks that I have added that match the search keyword. It seems like this would be similar to searching tag names...

Has anyone else experienced this?

Comment from joshua on 2004-10-07

2004-10-08T05:08:16Z

Agreed, I am working on adding more operators. However, narrowing queries seemed like the most important thing to do.

I'm not sure how the UI should look for OR and NOT, since I am not happy with just the one operator as it is...

There needs to be a lot more documentation all around. I'm working on it.

Comment from Jim Menard on 2004-10-08

2004-10-08T16:57:34Z

Eric, I just asked a similar question about searching on the mailing list. Joshua wrote in reply,

"I store the stemmed version of the word.

"Use 'tag:ioc' to search for tags. I'll get 'user:username' working soon, too."

Comment from ollie on 2004-10-10

2004-10-11T03:38:21Z

I had a stab at a GUI for a del.icio.us client application that provides the option of 'NOT' filtering.

del.icio.us mockup

Comment from yuval on 2004-12-15

2004-12-15T12:32:50Z

It would also be VERY helpful to provide a way to import a current bookmarks list (am I missing some obvious way to do it ? ) - e.g. the bookmarks html from Mozilla ...

Comment from Ole Begemann on 2004-12-16

2004-12-16T11:42:57Z

Hi Brad, there's a typo in your link to del.icio.us (one u too many).

Comment from Sam Newman on 2006-02-26

2006-02-26T09:40:36Z

There is a big problem with allowing NOT and OR style queries - performance. As Joshua said at the recent Future Of Web Apps summit in London, tags don't map very well to relational databases. A NOT query could be hell - it'd require full table scans for each request, which isn't going to scale very well.

Another interesting point he raised - very few people use more than one tag for querying (about 1 in 20 IIRC) - which leads me to believe there are a lot of people using del.icio.us in (what I would regard) as a sub-optimal fashion. Still, if it works for them...

Given that I suspect even fewer people would use more advanced queries like NOT's and OR's - the cost of optimizing the system for such a small number of users would probably be pobhibitive.

Joshua's podcast of the talk is online: http://www.carsonworkshops.com/summit/. The most interesting part of the talk for me was the fact that he has a very clear vision of what del.icio.us is, and most importantly what it is not - using these criteria it's been easier for him to push back on user requests which may well of bloated the system.

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2005-08-24T11:19:48Z

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