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• Britta Gustafson  |  Mar 4 2009 at 11:16 am

  Just a note: To put a bookmark in another person’s Inbox, tag it with “for:[username]”. This is even easier if you’ve added the person to your Network already. For more help, see our FAQ for Network, Subscriptions, and Inbox.

• minhaaj ur rehman  |  Mar 4 2009 at 1:10 pm

  its out of context but have you ever thought importing contacts to add to network from facebook, gmail, hotmail and yahoo? i can’t just add anyone from my contacts here.

• Andy Davies  |  Mar 4 2009 at 1:33 pm

  Hurrah!

  This is just the sort of annoying niggle that needs sorting out…

• Britta Gustafson  |  Mar 4 2009 at 2:29 pm

  minhaaj ur rehman: Yes, we’re thinking about that. People have expressed interest on the forum as well — see this thread.

• christine  |  Mar 5 2009 at 7:23 am

  Hi!

  I don’t really get the difference between the private RSS feed and the regular one.

  Even if I marked some of my bookmarked to be private, they are showing up in the regular RSS feed. Is it supposed to be that way?

  And what is the private feed supposed to do? Is it supposed to include all private bookmarks?

  Thanks,
  Christine

• christine  |  Mar 5 2009 at 8:00 am

  Me again.

  After several tests with Netvibes, I find that my private RSS feed doesn’t update. Can you help?

  Thank you
  C.

• Nicola D'Agostino  |  Mar 5 2009 at 10:12 am

  Cool! All the Inbox needs now is just a way to send a big “thank you” to the user when you liked their suggestion. ;-)

  nda

• Britta Gustafson  |  Mar 5 2009 at 4:11 pm

  christine: It sounds like you may have run into feed caching. Delicious updates each RSS feed approximately once every 30 minutes (see the feeds help page for details), so if you make a bookmark private and then immediately check the public feed, you may still see that bookmark. Let us know if your private feed continues to stay the same on Netvibes.

• yelugab  |  Mar 6 2009 at 1:21 am

  Delicious is useful and easy to use. Either you click and things fall into place or It’s a brick wall!

• m0el  |  Mar 6 2009 at 6:35 am

  Cool !!! go delicious

• Bill Reed  |  Mar 6 2009 at 6:33 pm

  Can someone please HELP??

  http://delicious.com appears to be inaccessible.

  Is there something going on of which we should be aware?

  Thanks in advance.

• Bill Reed  |  Mar 6 2009 at 6:38 pm

  Even the support site - http://delicious.com/help/support - is inaccessible for me.

  Contact me AT bill.reed@earthlink.net with possible answers and solutions.

  Again, thanks.

• Britta Gustafson  |  Mar 8 2009 at 6:24 pm

  Bill Reed: I’m not quite sure what happened for you — I haven’t heard other reports of Delicious being inaccessible at that time, so it’s possible that there was a temporary problem somewhere between your computer and the Delicious servers.

• Carl Parisien Natick MA  |  Mar 13 2009 at 12:01 pm

  yes I also could not acccess delicious site. Is there something we need to know

• Dale  |  Mar 17 2009 at 8:51 am

  helpme amd keep me signed in!!!

• Oliver  |  Mar 19 2009 at 5:41 am

  Being to able to clean my inbox is a step forward. There is one thign missing though: I can’t put things in my inbox like other users. That is weird.

  If others post to my inbox via for:[username] it just lands in my inbox. If I tag it my self with for:[my_own_username] it lands in my inbox and my bookmarks.

  It would be great to use it as a real inbox for myself so that I can use it as a repository for link I have to work through or read later.

  It would be great if you can change that behaviour.

• Mark  |  Mar 19 2009 at 10:54 am

  It would be cool if you could communicate with your friend on the items they send to your inbox. Currently, I cannot figure out how to reply to links sent via friends.

• Kirk  |  Mar 20 2009 at 8:00 pm

  I manage a team of 20 people, and this is one of the points I preach on a daily basis. I spend too much time educating them on indox management, and why it should represent ‘active’ information, and that information that has had action performed on it should be archived, moved, or otherwise removed from the inbox view, regardless of technology. Great point.

  Kirk

• John  |  Mar 21 2009 at 10:59 am

  What happens when one removes the bookmark from the Inbox? Is it permanently gone?

  What if a user doesn’t save a bookmark in their Inbox, removes it, then later decided that they did want to save a bookmark after all? Is that problematic?

  Rather than removing, could there be an archive function instead that moves the Inbox clutter to a total storage bin? Take a look at Gmail, an Inbox and an All Mail box for those who want to declutter their Inbox but yet refer to past e-mails at a later time. It allows the user multiple ways of ’storing’ without committing to the bookmarks.

  Hoping to see an amendment to the feature! :o)

  John

• Baris  |  Mar 24 2009 at 6:37 am

  I know this not a good place and time to ask this question but:
  When I drill down to some of my tags on firefox delicious addon, then find the web page and click it, it turns to root tab again and all my drill down operation is gone. I really hate this. I was thinking to begin google bookmarks because of its goog folder feature. Can anybody uggest me a solution to that?thanx

• Britta Gustafson  |  Mar 24 2009 at 10:01 pm

  Oliver: That’s an interesting use of the Inbox. People tag bookmarks “for:[myself]” for varying reasons, so we probably wouldn’t want to change the current behavior too much — it could be confusing if that tag automatically made a bookmark disappear from your main list. Why not tag the items “toread” or similar? (Just curious; there’s no wrong way to do this.)

  Mark: Delicious doesn’t have a commenting feature, but you could save the bookmark with your own thoughts in the notes and then tag it “for:[friend]”. Some other users have requested comments too; see the forums for some discussion.

  John: Yes, when you remove an item from the Inbox it’s permanently gone, much like deleting items from your Bookmarks. We trust that when a person removes (and confirms the removal) of an item, they want it deleted. We can think about an archiving feature, but we’d also like to keep this relatively simple. :)

  Baris: I can’t seem to reproduce this with the latest generally-released Delicious add-on (2.1.018), using Firefox 3.0.7 on Mac OS X. When I drill down through a couple of tags in the sidebar and then click a bookmark, the sidebar remains the same. Do you mean that the sidebar gets collapsed when you open a new tab? You can make the sidebar stick open by clicking the little square “pin” icon near the top of the sidebar.

• Baris  |  Mar 25 2009 at 10:34 am

  I mean that when I drill down through through tags and edit a bookmark e.g remove that bookmark, it collapses to root level.

  Is there a tool to edit or to reorganize my bookmarks easily? e.g it shows me least used tag and I’ll remove that tag from all the bookmarks include that tag in one step.

  You used the sentence “I drill down through a couple of tags in the sidebar”, unfortunately sidebar doesn’t allw to do that except just two level including the root.If they add this feature i.e drill down through all the tags that a bookmark has; in other words I can say a filter feature.

  We write our emails to comment section of your website but don’t get any reply email or a notification if we get a reply. Think about it :)

  Take care,

• Paul Marion  |  Mar 28 2009 at 9:05 am

  I love the inbox feature on delicious. It has become a daily ritual for me, checking to see what “delicious” links my friends have sent my way. Keep up the great work.

• Alison  |  Apr 20 2009 at 9:16 am

  I see that you can bulk delete bookmarks, but can you bulk save them? I have a separate delicious account for a specific project, and so sometimes tag things for:project. I do this from my main account as I want the bookmark to be in both. So basically I then want to be able to save all the ones I’ve for:project tagged (in my project inbox) at once as I know they’re ones I want! Is this possible?

• Lenen  |  Apr 28 2009 at 1:50 am

  That’s a nice feature. Organizing my inbox will become easier!

• Carl Parker  |  Sep 9 2009 at 11:14 am

  With the new version of the Inbox feature, I am no longer able to tell at a glance if I have sent someone from my network a bookmark.

  It used to be that “for:” would appear in the list of tags for the sent bookmark. However, it doesn’t anymore. Now, in order to determine if I have sent a user a bookmark, I have to scroll the list of tags to “for:”, click on that tag, and then scroll the list of bookmarks–which isn’t as efficient.

  I thought that perhaps this behavior was changed because it is now possible to send a user a bookmark *multiple* times, but I don’t really see why that would preclude visibly tagging the bookmark with “for:”.

  This seems like a regression in functionality. I’d like to be able to view the “for:” tag on the bookmark (previous behavior). Can you explain why this was changed? Thanks.

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