JeremyHelms

del.icio.us: links + tags + time = unholy mess

June 25, 2006 at 12:13 am

Hundreds of links, and nearly the same amount of tags - it was getting rid.iculo.us!

It's taken hours (literally), but I just finished cleaning out my del.icio.us closet. After manually deleting every tag in my account, I (one-by-one) shift+clicked each link in my del.icio.us links page, opening it into a new browser tab, went back to the del.icio.us tab, two-click deleted the link I just opened, went back to the opened link tab, clicked the "post to del.icio.us" browser button to re-add the link, and re-tagged the link post with a standardized tag convention I came up with [to minimize the amount of scattered tags that end up with only 1 link assigned to each].

During this process, I cleaned out tons of links and got my del.icio.us link count back down to an even 100, and only 48 different tags (most of which relate to each other), 11 of which only have one link and are basically for future link tagging.

About the author

I am Jeremy Helms, 28 year old graphic designer, web designer, site architect, programmer, copywriter and ambitious entrepreneur. I was born and live in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. This site is my personal periodical for design, code, business and other topics. When I'm not glued to the computer, I enjoy music, movies, late-night television and sometimes a good night out on the town with friends.

I began professional work in the IT industry 13 years ago in September, 1995. I started my first business in 1998, incorporated my second business in 2001, my third in 2002 and my fourth and most recent in 2006. I am a sponge — I am constantly exploring and learning — about business, design, programming, history, society, and whatever pops up on blogs across the web.

• I have been happily married for 5 years; together for a total of 10 years
• I am a father of two boys; Junior (born 02-06-07 @ 6:17PM — 8lbs 13oz.) and Jedi (born 05-06-08 @ 12:39PM — 8lbs 4oz.)
• I am a free and accepted Master Mason, belonging to Florida Alpha Lodge No. 172
• I have two prize Labrador Retrievers (Buck & Brody)
• I graduated from Choctawhatchee Senior High School
• Some of my favorite movies include Snatch, L4yer Cake, Blade Runner, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, THX 1138, Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels, the Star Wars hexology and Ronin