So I have a confession to make, I love delicious, but I’m lousy at tagging bookmarks. I have a horrible memory so in my travels (and I delicious links a lot) I find myself wanting to tag a bookmark with as many keywords as possible on some off chance I don’t know what to search on to dig up the particular bookmark I’m trying to retrieve. I end up manually toggling every popular tag that is shown on a given post. It’s too time consuming for me.

I’ve been working with jQuery and bookmarklets a lot lately so I had the idea of leveraging the two to create my own LazyTagger bookmarklet for Del.icio.us.

The LazyTagger process is simple

1. You must have the Del.icio.us ‘post’ bookmarklet installed.
2. Drag the LazyTagger bookmarklet to your browser bookmarks toolbar
   
3. Copy and paste this code into the ‘location’ of your newly created bookmark. (has to be done to avoid character limit on browsers)
   javascript:var%20s=document.createElement(’script’);s.setAttribute(’src’,%20′http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js’);document.body.appendChild(s);s.onload=function(){if($(”#poptags”).size()){$(”#poptags%20a.tag”).each(function(){swap($(this).text());});}$(window).keydown(function(event){switch%20(event.keyCode)%20{case%2016:$(”input#private”).click();break;case%200:$(”input#tags”).focus();return%20false;break;}});};void(s);
4. ‘post to delicious’ just like you normally would
5. When you’re at delicious, click the LazyTagger bookmarklet
6. All of the popular tags will be selected automatically. Laziness rocks.
7. After all of the popular tags are toggled the focus will be placed on the tags input so you can begin typing any other tags you deem necessary.
8. You can also press shift to toggle privacy

That’s LazyTagger. I’ve been using it for a couple of weeks and I can honestly say I don’t think I could go back. Feedback appreciated.

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