Add notes to del.icio.us without typing

As a result of sharing del.icio.us with nearly 150 people at school in the last year, I have a growing fan base and lots of networked buddies who are passing bookmarks around. Awesome!

While I'm really pleased to see so many happy new users of del.icio.us, I'd like to gently point out the usefulness of the notes box when you post a new bookmark. You can type anything you want in this box to help you remember why you saved the book (or to give your friends a hint when you share bookmarks). 

If you don't like typing notes, just do this:

1. Before tagging a website, first use the mouse pointer to select some text.
2. Tag the page as you usually do.
3. When the posting box opens, the highlighted text is already pasted into the note box!

Presto! Notes without typing!

Comments

[Jane Krauss]

Hi Tom - I found this post in the most circular diigo way... I love this function in del.icio.us, stumbled on it by accident thinking I was going to paste into the text field and bingo! there it appeared.
So, I feel like I'm stepping out on my dear del.icio.us by using diigo... keeping both for now but I'm not a good two-timer.

[tom]

I've had enough glitches with diigo that, although the concept is way cool, it's just not as quick as del.icio.us (especially when you select text first!). However, it's very easy to import your del. tags to diigo, so you can still get your social network fix.