![]() Principle 2: Manage Your Cognitive Projects, Sources, and Time Systematically,.Pinboard, like Pocket, isn’t just a website, it’s a web service that you can access from various apps.īookmarking straddles two of the principles that will be described in our upcoming screencast-rich e-book, Cognitive Productivity with MacOS®: 7 Principles for Getting Smarter with Knowledge: More on “Surfing” in Cognitive Productivity with MacOS® That follows my previously explained convention of using for abbreviations of names of people. If you find yourself frequently referring to the developer of Pinboard, Maciej Ceglowski, and can’t quite remember how to spell his name, then you might want to create a snip for his name: Much faster that navigating through the pinboard website to get to your knowledge gems.Ĭreating bookmarks with a good text expansion utility is so quick that this can easily be worth the effort. Thereafter, in the address bar, you can quickly expand “#*msb” to get a list of the web pages you’ve tagged with mySleepButton. You frequently access this list of articles, so you create a snippet called “#*msb” (“M”: my, “S”: sleep, “B”: “button”), like this For example, suppose you are researching mySleepButton and have tagged several bookmarks with “mySleepButton”. For instance, if you add “mySleepButton”, then you’d get: :‹user›/t:mySleepButton.įor very frequently used bookmarks, you can also create a TextExpander shortcut that acts as a bookmark for your Pinboard tag. On expanding the snip, you would enter the tag itself. Replacing ‹user› with your pinboard username. You can create a text snip that expands to the following In the post mentioned previously, I also explained the general principles of using text expansion for web addresses. (Launchers send URLs to the default browser for opening.) I expand the abbreviation either in a web browser’s address bar or via the launcher. To access frequently used tags, I find it more convenient to use text expansion than LaunchBar by itself. I also previously explained the benefits of developing an abbreviation “grammar” and conventionsĪccessing Pinboard Tags from the Web Address Bar with Text Expansion So I read the little abbreviation as “an arbitrary number of web pages to which a given tag has been applied.” Meanwhile, in the realm of regular expression, “*” stands for “an arbitrary number of”. In other contexts “#” is a prefix for tags. In my text expansion conventions “#” introduces webpages. Personally, I use “#*” as an abbreviation for this search template. ![]() You can even manually define an abbreviation for the template by typing ⌘⇧-A when typing ahead in the LaunchBar Input Window selects this template. You would then, in the usual manner, train LaunchBar to quickly access your new search template. Just enter the tag that you want to access, e.g., Apple, and you’ll get all your bookmarks tagged with that. When you access this template, LaunchBar will prompt you with a minimalistic text input window. If you are looking for publicly tagged bookmarks, just remove “/u:‹user›. Give it a name, such as “Pinboard”, and then in the Template URL field paste: Just click on the Search item in that section, and then click on the “+” button at the bottom of the main pane.Ī new row will appear. In the Web section of the LaunchBar index sidebar (⌘-I to access the window), you can add a search template. You can access your Pinboard tags via launchers like LaunchBar or Alfred. It also provides a tag cloud for your most frequently used tags (click on “Top” on your pinboard home page).īut there are faster ways to access one’s tagged bookmarks than by navigating Pinboard’s tag web pages. Pinboard exposes its tags in a friendlier way than Pocket does. mark them for future reading-later, and.associate notes with them (unlike Pocket),.Old fashion in-browser bookmarking doesn’t scale. Pinboard lets you bookmark from any browser, connect up to three Twitter accounts (and favorites), and sync with popular services like Instapaper or Pocket.įor a few more bucks a year, Pinboard offers an archiving service which saves a copy of everything you bookmark, gives you full-text search, and automatically checks your account for dead links. You pay a few bucks a year, and that’s it. ![]() There are no ads and no third-party tracking. Pinboard is a fast, no-nonsense bookmarking site for people who value privacy and speed. This post shows you how.īut first, what is Pinboard? Here’s how its developer, Maciej Ceglowski, describes it : You can use launchers and/or text expansion apps to quickly access Pinboard bookmarks (and Pocket bookmarks, for that matter). ![]()
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