Nowadays, I do most if not all of my reading electronically or online. And sometimes this makes it difficult when I want to go back and reference something I have read previously, whether it is an article, website or book.

The simple method of using a browsers built-in bookmarking doesn’t provide enough context and accessibility. And so I’ve been using web-based bookmarking resources for a couple of years now. But I have run into some limitations that has caused me to update the tools I use and how I use them.

For normal bookmarking, I am still using Delicious which gives me the tagging and cloud-based access tools. But since Google Buzz has come out, I have started using that for more miscellaneous bookmarks that I just want to record having visited but not necessarily to keep for future reference.

I have been using Google Reader pretty extensively in keeping up with different news and information sources. And while starring works to mark articles for future action as I am scanning feeds, I have found that I needed a more mid-term “bucket” for those articles that take more time to catch-up on. This is where Read it Later has come in handy. With the Firefox add-on, I can mark articles for later reading directly in Google Reader, and read them offline or even on my Android phone via Paperdroid.

For more serious web research, I continue to use Diigo for online highlighting and archiving, including snapshots which comes in handy as websites change their access policies to older articles. (update: unfortunately, Diigo has started charging for the snapshot function)

Posted from Irvine, California, United States.