Comments on: Ma.gnolia, A Better Way to Bookmark

By: Melora

Melora — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:58:00 +0000

Well written article.

By: Factory Joe

Factory Joe — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 01:40:00 +0000

A couple things. I've figured out a way to fix the pop-under problem. I dunno if this will work, but if you can change your bookmarklet to the following location, it should work:

javascript:(function(){w=open(('http://ma.gnolia.com/bookmarklet/marker/add?url='+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+'&title;='+encodeURIComponent(document.title)),'w','scrollbars=0,status=0,resizable=1,location=0,toolbar=0,width=340,height=300,modal=1,dependent=1');setTimeout('w.focus()',1000)})();

Also, Larry removed a bunch of the Javascript in the Ma.rker so now it loads *incredibly* fast. Things keep getting better!

By: Nate

Nate — Fri, 05 Jan 2007 04:45:00 +0000

I have the same “pop-under” problem with Magnolia on my machines (Mac and PC) with Firefox. Please share if you find a solution. Thanks!

By: Todd Sieling

Todd Sieling — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 15:19:00 +0000

One more item to add: we took a closer look at the Firefox 2 and popup bookmarklet problem, and are now quite sure it’s a Firefox bug/aggressive feature that we can’t work around. We’ll look at developing a plugin unless something changes there soon.

By: Thomas Hawk

Thomas Hawk — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:11:00 +0000

Anonymous, We’d better fire the guy who wrote that at Zooomr. Just kidding. Zooomr is just Kristopher and I right now. Actually we have a slightly different opinon on that rule. But I think you can feel free to upload a screen shot if you want.

Thanks for clarifying some of those points Todd. It’s a great site.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:49:00 +0000

To play the devil’s advocate… “The Web Site is intended for hosting digital photographs; therefore, uploading non-photographic images is prohibited.”

From Zooomr’s Terms of Service. Does a screenshot count as a photo?

By: todd sieling

todd sieling — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 12:13:00 +0000

I forgot to mention re. todd p’s comment about the Firefox sidebar that we sometimes get requests for this kind of add-on, but have to defer as we’re still working on the stuff that everyone can use, regardless of browser choice. One of our members, Craig, has come up with his dream design and discusses it at .http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/rants-n-raves/discussions/111 for anyone with an interest.

By: Todd sieling

Todd sieling — Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:13:00 +0000

Thomas, thanks for writing this up – it’s sweet that you’re enjoying Ma.gnolia, and we’re proud of the pros you mention. I see a few comments to reply to so I’ll try for an omnibus comment as I’m coming in late

Regarding the community, you’re right that it’s still growing and forming its identity, and Ma.gnolia is changing along with that of course. We have some fantastic leading-edgers who talk to us regularly through the blog comments, the wiki, our IRC channel, email and our own discussions. They tell us what we’re doing right and wrong, they help each other with tips and even articles. The fact that we’re attracting such positive people is our best encouragement.

The mini ma.rker bookmarklet used to be more confident and would appear out in front, but after Firefox 2 was released it became shy and started hiding in the background. We’re confused about the change, as the bookmarklet does specify for the front position, and need to figure out of this is something we can fix from our end. Does anyone know of bookmarklets that can still get into the front position on Firefox 2? If so let us know so we can address this from the right direction.

Cygnoir: welcome! That’s a hefty number of bookmarks you’re carrying, so if we can help you settle into Ma.gnolia at all just drop us a line.

factoryjoe & bill: +1 for QuickSilver. The Ma.gnolia support has changed the way I get to bookmarks as much as QuickSilver changed the way I use my Mac. This discussion rounds up tips on installing the bookmarks plugin and other uses of the MIrrord API: http://ma.gnolia.com/groups/madevs/discussions/33

ToddP: +1 on the tags – we think spaces in tags work better for people, though sure they make a bit more work in the database. Cocoalicious is a desktop-side bookmarks manager that interfaces with del.icio.us and Ma.gnolia. I admit to not having looked at it for a while, but it should fit the bill. If you have trouble getting it to work, let us know and we’ll see if we can help out.

This is a nice discussion to stumble into. Thanks again Thomas and others!

By: todd p

todd p — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:10:00 +0000

A quick question: does anyone know any tools to help get your social bookmarking tags under control. I have about 800 bookmarks, and the tagging is a mess. I don’t look forward to editing each bookmark’s tags in a web based tool. Any suggestions?

By: Todd P

Todd P — Tue, 02 Jan 2007 14:04:00 +0000

I’ve been liking del.icio.us much better since I installed the Firefox plugin that allows for quick adding. The plug-in adds two buttons to the toolbar, one for tagging a bookmark, the other for displaying all your bookmarks with nice searching abilities. One other thing that I think really rocks about the Del.icio.us plugin for Firefox is the default firefox:toolbar tag that displays a toolbar with all your links for a specific tag. I use this to keep synced on different computers the list of web tools I use most often.
Nonetheless, one of the things I can’t stand about delicious is the tag naming scheme. I want my tags to be able to have spaces in them. I want “Photoshop Actions” instead of “PhotoshopActions”. Google bookmars supports the former, but doesn’t seem to have the toolbar support.
I’m going to checkout Magnolia. I tried bluedot a while ago, but at work it’s blocked by Websense becase of “Dating” keywords or something..