Furl, Tagyu and PithHelmet

I use Furl for storing all my bookmarks. It's free it works, it has search - and stores an archive of all the pages you've visited, so in my opinion it's better that it's main competitor del.icio.us (though del.icio.us has a much nicer api, feels much more hackable, and keeps getting better while furl seems a little stuck.)

Anyhow the one feature that del.icio.us has the I really want for Furl is suggested tags/categories. This saves me from actually thinking about where a bookmark should be organized - it's just labelled for me. Thankfully Tagyu exists, has a rest API, and a has Siddharth Uppal's user contributed perl API (which will hopefull be on CPAN shortly). So all I needed to do was mash them together.

Which I did using a Pithhelmet Machete script - a simple perl script that alters the HTML for the furl submit form every time I request it. Think greasemonkey for Safari, in perl :) !

Anyhow - if you want to do the same here's the script.

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