Tweaking my documented life: Pinboard, IfThisThenThat, Twitter

[azurelunatic]

Currently, I track my bookmarks with Pinboard. I export my bookmarks from Pinboard to Twitter via IfThisThenThat. (My Twitter is then imported into my journal, the hub of my online life. Since it's a question that comes up: semanticist wrote the import script and graciously hosts it for me; it requires a server with Ruby to run.)

Since every now and then I go on the sort of bookmarking spree that is neither neighborly nor useful when automatically shipped to Twitter, I decided that I'd do something about that.

I tweaked my IfThisThenThat task to only export the bookmarks tagged 'twitter', which will take care of most of the future situations where I might be dealing with an asston of bookmarks which I know that only I will care about.

Then, since I know my own lazy habits, I tweaked my Pinboard bookmarklet.

javascript:q=location.href;if(document.getSelection){d=document.getSelection();}else{d='';};p=document.title;void(open('https://pinboard.in/add?showtags=yes&url='+encodeURIComponent(q)+'&description='+encodeURIComponent(d)+'&title='+encodeURIComponent(p)+'&tags=.twitter','Pinboard',%20'toolbar=no,width=700,height=600'));

This opens the portable Pinboard add page (with tags on), filling in the URL, page title, optionally description (with what's selected on the page), and (my addition) automatically filling in the tag 'twitter' every time [edit: ursamajor's addition: as a private tag]. If I leave the tag, it ships (the default I want), but if I merely remove that tag, it doesn't. [Edit: Either way, since it's a private tag, no one else should see the tag cluttering up things.] Sorted!

Comments

[lacey]

I heart Pinboard. I got an account this weekend, and I can't say enough good about it.

[azurelunatic]

And the guy who runs it is a lot of fun.

[ursamajor]

One more thing you might consider doing - if you tag said bookmarks as ".twitter" with a period in front, that makes that a "private tag" on Pinboard, consequently keeping tags data cleaner for those searching on PinterestBOARD for things actually related to Twitter. :)

(I love opportunities to use my "Do I look like an information booth?" icon. :D )

[azurelunatic]

But, will a private tag activate the ifttt thingy? That is the vital question.

[ursamajor]

I ... would think so, given that IIRC it is performing as you? *checks*

[ursamajor]

Triggered thrice! http://twitter.com/ursamajor/status/155132618315272192 , http://twitter.com/ursamajor/status/155132620936708096 , http://twitter.com/ursamajor/status/155133613917208576 , and here's the recipe. :)

[azurelunatic]

And script edited!

[ursamajor]

YAY OMG IT WORKS this actually revolutionizes a couple of my own info-gathering/spreading workflows :D \o/

[andrewducker]

I was tempted to do something like this for my linkblog posting, but decided I liked the tags too much, and the extra info, to switch to it.

[azurelunatic]

Tags and extra info are awesome! I might eventually swap over to something that gets more information into my journal, but that's a project for another day.