Licorize: FINALLY-A Way to Actually Do Something With All Those Bookmarks

Leslie A Joy — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 01:00:29 +0000

Every once in awhile an app comes along with an idea that makes so much sense, you can’t believe no one thought of it first. Every once in awhile you find yourself using an app that you can’t figure out how you managed to live without. Licorize manages the impossible by being both.

So, What Is Licorize?

Licorize’s aim is to turn bookmarking into essentially a shareable to-do list. Their USP is “a minimalistic and fast to-do manager that you can feed with your bookmarks and web updates-designed for the web worker set.”

Great, So What Exactly Does That Mean?

Think about your day. You check your RSS reader…your Twitter feed…your Facebook…then there are the links people share with you…maybe you subscribe to the LinkedIn Q&A section…

Chances are by the end of the day, you’ve bookmarked 87 things with the promise to read them…or tweet them…or share the links with other people…or maybe one of them was a tutorial that you wanted to try out…or something that you wanted to turn into a task…you get the picture. Anyway, you have all these bookmarks. Sure, they might be tagged with keyword in Delicious or Diigo, but let’s be realistic-if you don’t turn it into an actionable task, you’re probably not going to see those bookmarks again.

Licorize aims to solve that problem by allowing you to conveniently turn those bookmarks into tasks.

How Convenient Is Convenient?

VERY. Licorize offers:

A Firefox Plugin
A Chrome Extension
A Safari Extension
An Opera Custom Button
A Bookmarklet-Well, two bookmarklets. One is for Licorizing and another is for reminding you about what you licorized.
A Script to Bookmark By Hand for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad
A WordPress Plugin

While there isn’t an actual iPhone or Android extension yet, the people behind Licorize at currently working on one.

They’ve pretty much thought of everything.

What Happens When I Try to Licorize a Web Page?

When you Licorize a page, an overlying tab pops up:

The URL and the Title of the page are pre-filled in by Licorize-though they are editable. Underneath that, there is space for notes. Moving further down, you can choose what project to file the page under and who to assign it to. The person doesn’t need to have a Licorize account to receive assignments-although if you’re a helpful friend or co-worker, you’re probably going to strongly suggest that they get one. The last line includes a slot for tags-just like how you would tag something in Delicious or Diigo.

But that isn’t the best part of the Licorize pop-up. The best part is that small icon in the upper left hand corner. Click on that and you can categorize EXACTLY why you’re bookmarking that particular page.

Licorize has built in options to choose from that include:

To-do
Idea
Goal
Image
Note
Milestone
Reminder
Meeting
Worklog
Effort
Cost
Budget
Contact: person
Company

Once again-the people behind Licorize really do think of everything.

Ok, I’ve Licorized a Bunch of Stuff, Now What?

Well, the first step would be to go to the Licorize site and login.

Once you login, the home screen is divided into 2 columns. On the left you have a “chronology” of the posts you Licorized-with the Title, URL, a picture of the web page, what project it belongs to, and any tags you have listed.

On the left you have 4 different sections:

Projects-allows you to see what you bookmarked for each project and make any edits to the listed bookmarks or manage you projects listed.
Types-Remember the options you can choose from when you bookmark a web page? Here you can view your bookmarks by the options you tagged them as.
Tags-Works just like Delicious or Diigo-allows you to search through your bookmarks based on tags.
Calendar-This is a nifty feature that I’ve never seen in a bookmark manager before-you can view your bookmarks by date.

In the upper left hand corner, there are a few more options to choose from:

Home-This bring you back to your Licorize account’s home base.
Workweek-This is one of Licorize’s amazing features-a calendar pops up allowing you to add boomarks to your calendar in a task management form, ensuring that those bookmark related tasks actually get done.
Weekly Review-Another one of Licorize’s unique and amazing features-Licorize allows you to review all the things you bookmarked for the week, including what category you bookmarked them under, ensuring that nothing falls through the cracks.
People-This is the Licorize community. There’s also the ability to see who you have sent tasks to through Licorize.
Help-Easy access to Licorize’s contact and help information.

Under that there is a link to a list of tools and your setting options.

Your setting options include:

Your Profile-including a public gravatar and URL option.
Work Settings-allowing you to set up what days and hours you work, along with how many projects to show.
Your Booklet-allowing you to create a customizable CSS-styling for your booklet to share.
Your Account Information-pretty self-explanatory.
Connections-here’s where you can integrate Licorize with Evernote, Twitter, LinkedIn, an RSS feed, Read It Later, and Skype.
Change Password-again, pretty self-explanatory.
License-Where you can upgrade or delete your account.

What About my Delicious Bookmarks?

Good news! Licorize will import them!

Are there any other Licorize integration options?

Absolutely! Licorize syncs with Twitter, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Evernote, and any RSS feed. You can also use it with Skype and Google Maps.

Licorize covers integration in detail on their blog:

Pricing Information:

Good news! Most of the features Licorize offers are available on their free plan. Licorize also offers a Premium plan for $5/month or $49/year.

Personally, I’ve fallen in love with Licorize and life without it seems like a distant nightmare-I highly recommend it for anyone-especially web workers. Do yourself a favor and give Licorize a shot.

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Delibar – The Sexiest Delicious Client For Mac

benhomie — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:00:25 +0000

Delicious users rejoice! Finally, a beautiful and unobstrusive Delicious client for the Mac!

I’m a Delicious user myself, I love storing things in the cloud so that I can access stuff from anywhere. I also love being able to access stuff in the cloud natively on my Mac. In this instance, I can now add, search or share bookmarks in my Delicious account from my Mac enjoyably.

If I were to use an app daily, the app has to look good, Delibar by Shiny Frog kicks all the other Delicious client to the curb!

What I Look For In A Delicious Client

My expectations are simple. It has to look decent, able to let me search my bookmarks, access my recent bookmarks, save bookmarks from any browser I am on and most importantly, to be able to hide the icon because I really does not need it to clutter my dock! Delibar exceeds my expectations with more.

Interface

I’m just gonna let the looks do the talking. Well, okay. The sleek interface is split into four categories – Bookmarks, Recent, Network and Saved.

Bookmarks

Bookmarks lets you do searches on your Delicious account.

You can even do smart searches by using smart operators inside your search.

Use the “-” operator to exclude the next word or enclosing a string of words in quotes to search it in full phrase.

Recent

Want to access a recently saved bookmark? It’s all there on recent.

Network

You can keep up with your network’s bookmarks from here.

Saved

This one is pretty cool. If you frequently find yourself searching for certain bookmarks, for example icons, you can save the search under this tab! Much like how Twitter’s saved searches work.

Multiple Accounts

With the multiple accounts feature, you do not need to sign in and out of Delicious to access other accounts. That’s if you are a Delicious power user with multiple accounts, this will be very useful.

Social Network Sharing

Social media is on the rise these days and it is very smart of them to include social sharing as a feature! You can share you bookmarks via Twitter, Facebook, Delicious itself, email or MarsEdit. Need a short URL of that bookmark? Click the URL shortening icon and Delibar will shorten the URL for you via bitly and copy the resulting short URL to your clipboard!

Adding Bookmarks

Delibar incorporates the adding of bookmarks with your web browser via a bookmarklet. To add notes to your bookmark, just select any chunk of text on the page before clicking the bookmarklet. Delibar will also present to you a list of popular tags suggested by Delicious so that you can click on them to quickly add tags to your bookmark.

Conclusion

ShinyFrog recently reduced the pricing of Delibar from 18€ to USD$18. A good move by the developers in order for more people to come to terms with the price of the app.

If you’re a Delicious user, this is one app you cannot miss!