Jan 3, 2008
Nsyght: a search for things found.
As you can tell from the links on the right, I’m a Magnolia user. I don’t know why I’m more into Magnolia than delicious or the other Social Bookmarks but I am. I guess I just sort of starting using it and figured it would be a pain to switch. I’ll switch when I have to I suppose and luckily Magnolia has an API for getting my data out if I need a liferaft.
But ultimately, the thing to look for in a social bookmarker is search right? Every browser I’ve used (starting just after Lynx) has a bookmark feature built in. Bookmarking itself is pretty useless. But retrieval, now there’s something. What if I bookmark stuff all the time and want to see all my bookmarks that have to do with media, film, and business? Looking in my bookmark pile is pretty useless. And Magnolia’s search tool is ummm… bad.
Enter Nsyght. Nsyght.com searches all of your bookmarks in Magnolia (i.e. bookmarks that you thought worthy of adding to their collection; you will have to authorize the exchange of information but it’s very painless compared to say, getting Facebook to take your latest twitter and make it your profile).
Also, it was pretty easy to configure Nsyght as one of my options in Websearch for my iPod Touch. So that was an even bigger bonus.
If you’re a Magnolia user, give Nsyght a whirl as your Magnolia search tool. Find what you already found.
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