Trunk.ly

Never forget a link. Ah now, I'm really liking this. Thanks to the lovely wonderful Pandia for this. Links are important stuff - we all need them, and yet we're really bad at keeping them. Of course, there are resources like Delicious, Diigo and the rest that do a splendid job, but then there's the stuff that you share on Facebook and Twitter and the rest - what about those?

This is where Trunk.ly comes to the rescue. Create yourself an account and link it to any RSS feeds that you want, your Twitter Account, Facebook, Delicious. The engine will then collect all of your links and make them searchable. But there's more! It also will index the pages that the links point to, so in effect you're creating your own search engine of useful pages on the fly, without any real difficulty at all. Oh yes, I'm going to enjoy this product a lot. And... there's still more! I can do all of that, and search stuff from friends who have joined the system. And... and.. AND.... I can limit to video, image or place.

Firefox also recognises Trunk.ly as a search engine, so you can add it to your collection.

This is going to be tremendously useful. If you want to take a peek at it, my page is at http://www.trunk.ly/Philbradley/ If you create an account yourself, feel free to add me and I'll return the favour.

Comments

[Stephen Francoeur]

I love Trunk.ly too but find that the feature that will bookmark the links embedded on any page that you save creates a bit too much noise in the system for me. It wasn't just that Trunk.ly was saving links to interesting articles, posts, documents, ets. that were linked to in the pages I was saving, it was lots of other little links that are more part of the design of a page. I recently took off my Google Reader Shared Items feed, which I had set in Trunk.ly, then re-added it without the feature turned on that captures all the links on the page (deleting and re-adding the feed seemed to be the only way to modify that setting).