Bookmark Managing and Legal Research
I’ve recently been using del.icio.us a lot in keeping track of bookmarks for my legal research at work. When you’re doing Google searches all over the place, the bookmarking in-browser isn’t sufficient. Yes, you can put bookmarks into folders. But you don’t get the snapshot view that you can create with the description and tags in something like del.icio.us.
So, for example, I have a list of bookmarks I’ve saving for the corporate work I’ve been doing lately. Pretty nice, if you ask me.
I’m not sure, though, if del.icio.us is the best bookmark manager. I think the code is a bit clunky, and it’s made to be a social bookmarking tool—and I’m doing nothing social with this. I use edtags.org for my law school and education-related tags, for bookmark managing and for the social aspect, but I don’t think that bookmarks on corporate and real estate law would be of interest to teachers.
June 27th, 2007 at 10:53 am
You should try Zotero, a Firefox plugin that allows you to bookmark pages, take snapshots of whole pages (which you can then highlight), and organize them by project/tag/category. I’ve been using it for the past month to do my court research and it’s fantastic.
July 2nd, 2007 at 9:21 am
Austin, I’ll definitely check that out! Thanks for the recommendation!