In need of a bring forward app
Further to the Lovendar, I've been belly-aching about things being too easy for me, I'm putting the call out there for someone (anyone?) to create a Bring Forward App for all of my 'toread/tolisten/towatch' and similarly put-off-for-a-rainy-day tags on del.icio.us et al.
As a basic service, it could give me the option to temporarily store these items on my desktop, so that when offline and unable to distract myself with IM, email, RSS, et al, I can finally catch up on my reading (i.e. whilst riding the Caltrain). It would also give me gentle (but firm) reminders that these articles are getting pretty stale.
Even better, it would read the tags, keywords and general text of the article I've stored and, when I'm blogging or reading another article of interest that is related to something I've long since bookmarked and forgotten, it says, "Hey, dude, you have a seriously neglected article on this very subject you may want to compliment this experience with."
Man, that would be awesome.
2 Comments:
If you use a desktop RSS reader instead of a web based one it will grab all your feed items and make them readable offline, perhaps setting one up just for a feed of items you tag as to-read-later.
For your second task, if you have a PC (or if you don't and are just interested) check out http://blinkx.com/pico.html I would like to get something like this for the Mac.
I wish something like this could exist. It wouldn't make me any more organized, but it would force me to realize it's not the system that's broken ... I'm just trying to do too much.
I use ScrapBook (for Firefox) to store content for reading offline. No tags, but the full text search works fine, and you can mark pages you need to read, vs those you just want to keep around.
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