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December 08, 2004
Jotspot/Deli.cio.us Review
I have a beta tester confession to make at week four of my use of Jotspot: I haven't. I was excited about the email-to-wiki, until I realized that you have to first create the wiki page, add in the email address, and then may email to said page. I was excited about the self-organizing categories, until I realized that first you create the categories, and then dropped stuff into them and let the wiki organize them. Nice, but not quite there.
Here is what I want: a personal knowledge management portal into which I bookmark web pages (a la furl), bcc: emails to (a la jotspot), watches my blog and indexes it + any links from it (a la deli.cio.us), directly input text/documents into (a la wikis/jotspot). The trick: I don't want to organize it.
There should be two interfaces for my flatspace KM portal: a Google search interface and a wiki interface. When I'm home for Thanksgiving weekend and remember that I read an NYT article about Thanksgiving wines, I simply need to drop into my portal and google for "Thanksgiving wines" to find the article again. Then, the portal should notice that I searched for "Thanksgiving" and organize a wiki page that ties together all my saved documents, emails, and web pages that are relevant to Turkey Day.
As you may note from my linkblog, I've started using deli.cio.us as my bookmarking mechanism. Good stuff, that. Cross-referencing URLs, optional keywords, RSS feeds, and a lightweight interface all combine into a useful internet app. Desires?
- Recommendations based on stored bookmarks and social patterns
- A distinction between read and unread (so that I could store all my bookmarks there, never deleting and taking advantage of the perpetual search and category system)
- Keyword suggestions a la nutr.itio.us when you save your bookmarks
Conf.uci.us say: use deli.cio.us (new? use the starter's guide. Worked for me). Don't knock yourself out for jotspot. Plot to roll your own KM portal.
Aside: where did the whole foo.bar.us meme come from?
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Posted by Noel at 02:35 PM
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Thanks for trying JotSpot, I'm sorry it didn't meet your needs. Perhaps we need better documentation for our email-to-page feature, because you don't actually need to create the page first. You can email to NewPage+secret@your.jot.com and it will create the page with the contents of your message. Of course you can also store bookmarks in the wiki (we do not yet index the contents of the bookmarks, but that's a planned feature). And your blog can be included via our external data integration. Finally, I'll add that if you want to use the wiki without organizing things ahead of time, that's perfectly possible; you can always use our search tools (which work for both structured and unstructured data).
Anyway, thanks again for trying our beta.
Posted by: Graham Spencer at December 15, 2004 07:02 PM