Mmmmm, webcomics

[avram]

While up in Gloucester I had access to a computer, but I’d left all my bookmarks at home. This wasn’t much trouble till I wanted my webcomics fix. At home I’ve got a Comics folder in my Bookmarks bar, with sub-folders for the days of the week, and I just select “Open in Tabs” to get all that day’s comics to open up. On the road, I need to rely on my fallible memory.

Well, that sort of thing is just what del.icio.us was created to help with. I’d been using my del.icio.us account mostly as a memo pad, a place to hold links I didn’t have time to follow up on right away, or things I knew I was going to want to be able to find later, while my own browser’s bookmarks file is for things I know I’m going to want to use frequently, so I hadn’t bothered trying to dump my bookmarks into del.icio.us. But that tags functionality comes in pretty handy for this sort of thing.

I’ve just dumped all of my webcomics links into del.icio.us, giving each one the tag webcomics, as well as a day tag (either one or more days of the week, or daily for comics that update Mon-Fri with optional weekends). Now I can look ’em up just by sticking the appropriate tags in a URL:

http://del.icio.us/avram/webcomics+sunday
http://del.icio.us/avram/webcomics+monday
http://del.icio.us/avram/webcomics+tuesday
http://del.icio.us/avram/webcomics+wednesday
http://del.icio.us/avram/webcomics+thursday
http://del.icio.us/avram/webcomics+friday
http://del.icio.us/avram/webcomics+daily

This doesn’t count the comics I read on my Friends page through LJ RSS feeds.