Exploring people's sites

[Sandy Nicholls]

I read with interest other blogger's sites and I find Helene's Library Bytes has a lot of imput from many people. Yes, Helene, I too have bits of info on envelopes, p slips, post it notes and 5 x 7 cards. My question-how do you begin to organize, keep track of favorite websites? and Oh-yes-the passwords. I love finding new sites and am grateful for other bloggers imput. Thanks for sharing!

[Sandy Nicholls]

Thank you for the information-yes I have used this site as well as Bloglines and find them most useful.
Sandy

[Jamie]

I feel your pain! I'm always going to a new site to register, and finding that I can't because I already have an account but have no idea what my user name and password are, given that I don't even remember visiting the site before.

I found the most marvelous little book - an Internet Journal. I don't use it quite the way it was envisioned, but I love it and I'm lost if I leave it at home or work. It's almost like an address book, except instead of ZIP and phone number, etc., you have spaces to put in username and password, and other notes. (Strangely, there's no place for a URL, which isn't always the same as a website's name, but that's easy to cope with.)

It feels really, really odd to keep all this internet stuff on paper, but I've come to accept that it just works better for me, especially when I have multiple accounts at one site. For example, I've got three accounts at Twitter - personal, a training one, and an "official" library one. I really need the user name/password combos written down so I can keep them straight.

[Jamie]

Oh, and the other thing I do is a keep a list of sites to investigate at my Backpack pages.

[Linda F.]

I have had the exact same experience, signing on to a new site and finding out I already had an account. While doing the 23 Things I was ending up with so many user names and passwords that I couldn't keep track. First, I started writing them in a little notebook, but I didn't always have that when I needed it. I ended up making a Google document (one of the 23 things) with all my site info and now have access to that information at home and at work.