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If you’re going to use it to check your email, label it “Check email.”  If you’re going to research the mating habits of the shrew, label it “Research the mating habits of the shrew.”

If you’ve saved it in order to find ideas for a wedding gift for you niece, label it “Find wedding gift for my niece.”

Keep it Going

Every time you bookmark a new site,  label it with an action. 

Feeling Stuck?  Here are Some Things People Do with Bookmarked Sites





• Look at _______.
  
• Learn about _______.
  
• Take notes on _______.
  
• Sign up for ___________.
  
• Cancel _______________.
  
• Pay my _____________  bill.
  
• Listen to __________________.
  
• Show this to ____________________.
  
• Update account information for _________________________.
  
• Get ideas for _____________________________.
  
• Compare _________________________________.
  
• Book a flight to ______________________________.
  
• Check email
  
• Read RSS feeds

So here's my multi-step process. Bookmark the website associated with the bookmarklet (in the case of my urlTea bookmarklet I bookmarked urltea.com). Then click on your new bookmark so that it gathers the proper icon from the site and looks all pretty. Meanwhile, drag the bookmarklet to the toolbar. (Ok, I know you can't do this "meanwhile," but it sounded good.) Now view the properties of the bookmarklet, copy the javascript in the "location" box, and then paste it into the "location" box of the now-former bookmark to the site. Now you can delete the un-beautiful bookmarklet because, well, you don't need two bookmarklets, do you?

My last step is to enclose the names of my bookmarklets in square brackets. This way I can tell at a glance which buttons do something and which are simply bookmarks.