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Mass Edits of Tags and Bookmarks would be REALLY helpful
It would be really helpful if one could access/edit all of their bookmarks from a spreadsheet/database kind of view. That way we could edit the many, many tags and bookmarks without having to drill down to one at a time through the browser all the time.
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Inappropriate?You can edit multiple bookmarks at once by clicking "Bulk edit" at the top right of your bookmarks page.
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Inappropriate?I secont the request. I've used Delicious as a sort of browsing history. This means that I've bookmarked not just pages that I like a lot but also quite a number of pages that I've thought that I might possibly maybe want to come back to one day, which has lead to quite a large # of bookmarks. And aobviously not so neat satck of tags (as I've used as little time per bookmark as possible).
I've tried the mass-editing feature of Delicious a few times but it's let me dwn every time. It's sluggish, it doesn't have nearly any features other than very basic rename and splitting one tag to multiple tags. And even that is annoyingly slow (takes nearly a minute to change one tag with all the clicks and all).
As a work-around of a kind I'd suggest that other people with this problem try out Diigo. Its development has been much more active than the development of Delicious for quite smoe time now and the results are starting to show qutie clearly. Delicious still has smoe usabiilty things that are better (e.g. while typing a tag delicious suggests tags in the order of popularity within your tags , which makes perfect sense but which Diigo doesn't do.
Anyways.
- Delicious people: Please implement a better mass-tagging feature (and groups, too).
- Users: Consider Diigo. You can also use these two services quite nicely at the same time even though Delicious doesn't have automatic posting to Diigo (with privacy toggle). Diigo is able to do this so you might want to consider posting to Diigo and submitting automatically to Delicious.
I’m slightly concerned
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Inappropriate?There are two kinds of mass editing on Delicious right now: rename/delete tags and the "Bulk edit" feature linked at the top right of your Bookmarks pages (in the small light blue box). It sounds like you're talking about the first kind — have you tried the second? It's not perfect, but it's relatively fast and has a few different features.
What other kinds of mass-editing are you interested in? Or mostly just improving the current set of features?2 Comments
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This is one of the best points
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Britta, neither of those lets you mass delete tags. A google search reveals lots of people annoyed by the inability to easily delete tags in bulk. -
Yes, there are comments on the Delicious forum about this, and we have it in mind for the future of the bulk editing tool.
If you acquired these unwanted tags by importing bookmarks, you may be able to re-import those bookmarks with the import options customized to "not add popular tags" and "Replace my Delicious bookmark with the imported one".
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