I’ve used delicious in the past for work and for school. I like to create delicious accounts for the classes I take online to help me keep track of helpful bookmarks shared by the professor, and links that I turn up in my own browsing. At work I tag links I find helpful for answering reference questions, and links to sites that I might need to access from home. The tagging feature helps me organize my links as well as access them quickly and easily.
When I first started using delicious, it was mostly as a repository for links that I needed to access over and over from different computers. Emailing the links to myself, or remembering how I found them, was incredibly tedious and time consuming. Delicious made keeping track of noteworthy links very simple. Now I can use it to come back to interesting articles and to share articles and sites with others (via the “for:” function). This feature makes it an invaluable tool to researchers. Although difficulties may arise when password protected sites are tagged, Open Access, and other free, sources of information are easy to tag and return to later.
I even prefer using delicious on my home computer than to saving links to my ‘favorites’ folder. This is because delicious’s tagging features allows me to organize them so much more clearly than a Favorites folder. The ability to bundle tags means that I can go from looking at a long, comprehensive list of tags to a short and focused list.
You can take a look at my delicious links: http://del.icio.us/krf26.
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