Tagged notes

I thought yesterday that I wanted a particular functionality: notes with tags--like del.icio.us only instead of storing and tagging websites, it stores and tags my own notes. I found an answer by searching John Tropea's Library clips blog (use the search box in the right column; the one in the left column wants to send him email instead). John writes wonderful long posts about web applications. I generally skim them when they are first posted and then use his blog as a kind of database of ideas.

In September, he wrote about TagFacts in a post called Tag Facts: folksonomy for notes! Exactly what I wanted! Except, that yesterday's need was for private notes and TagFacts only has public notes.

How might one use TagFacts in a library? I had an idea about using del.icio.us for on-the-fly subject guides. TagFacts might work even better because you could include both print sources and web sources.

For my purposes, private tagged notes, I ended up going with Gmail using this tip from Gmail tips. If anyone wants a Gmail account, I have invites to give away.     #

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