Linkify

I've been wanting to toss this idea to the lazy web, but I've been too lazy to even do that. hehe. Now someone finally mashed up a a very cool bookmarklet: Linkify, by Xenomachina. Every link in this post has been created by the bookmarklet.

Here's the problem: creating a blog post or a comment that properly links to relevant resources is really the good way to blog, but the process could be a little cumbersome. If you're lucky and you still have the original page open in your browser,

1. go to that page/window,
   
2. copy the url,
   
3. go back to your blogpost,
   
4. hightlight the word where you want to put the link, press the
   
5. LINK button, and
   
6. paste the URL.

And you have to do that for all the links. If you still have to look for the page, then it involves even more steps.

Enter Linkify: while in a textarea like in Google Blogger's post window (in edit HTML tab) or in comment fields,

1. select the text that you want to create the hyperlink,
   
2. click the linkify bookmarklet,
   
3. then select the appropriate google search result and click Create Link

Ah. quick, effective workflow. Now all you have to do is drag this bookmarklet: [linkify] to your Browser's bookmarks toolbar, then you're all set. :)