I Like Jots Lots

So you can add me to the growing list of Jots fans, a fact that is causing me a bit of angst since I really like Furl so much as well. But as Alan has said, Jots just has a cleaner feel, and it’s the best of Furl and del.icio.us in one. (I’ve never been a big del.icio.us fan, btw.) I like the bloggy look you get with your bookmarks. I like the easy tagging form and the list of tags in the right hand column. I like the RSS-ability of just about everything you can think of: users, tags, searches. Way too easy to do all of it. I like the trackback like links to people who have Jotted the same link. (The verb making industry loves the Read/Write Web.) I like that it saves a copy of the page. And I like the groups feature.

What I don’t like? I want the Jots page to open in a separate window so I can easily ALT-Tab back and forth to cut and paste. And I don’t like how everyone is adding their jots links to their blogs. I want blogs to be, well, blogs, not link lists. (There I go again, blog snob that I am.)

But that’s not enough to keep me from using it, though it may not seem like it from my public Jots list. That’s because I’m doing a lot of private saving for, um, private reasons. I’m looking forward to more and more people getting into the Jots pool…