I am a heavy Delicious user, and recently I wanted to make some of my personal tags (with many links under them) to be private, so that whenever I save a link and tag it with a specific keyword tag, that link would automatically be private (un-shared).
It turned out (after a few searches) that I couldn’t do that, there is no such a thing as private tag (doh!).
But, what I could do was, instead of making the tag private, I could un-shared all the links under that tag. Of course, I knew already that I could make a bookmark private, but it’s a kind of tedious if I have to check the ‘Do Not Share’ checkbox everytime I want to do it, and expecially if I do this exercise a lot.
Then I saw a link on my Delicious page that says ‘Bulk Edit’ … Aha! This could be the one I was looking for. Clicking on the link gave me a new toolbar on top of the bookmark list with additional link-buttons that say:
- Share
- Do Not Share
- Delete
- Add Tag
- Remove Tag
Moreover, in front of every bookmark, a checkbox was added (presumably to enable selection), and looking up I also saw the last pieces of the puzzle, a master checkbox that says ‘Select All’ … perfect! Ok, so it’s not exactly what I wanted at the first place, but at least I don’t have to edit those bookmarks and un-share them one by one!
Ticking the Select All checkbox, as expected, selected all bookmarks on ‘the current page’. Yes, unfortunately you can only do the operation a page at a time. Then clicking on the ‘Do Not Share’ link on the toolbar made all selected bookmarks private (after a confirmation). Repeat and rinse for all pages.
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Thanks for this tip! it really saved me a lot of time.
You can reduce the number of operations by selecting delicious to show 100 bookmarks per page (this option is at the bottom of the screen, on the right hand side, the default is 10, but you change it to 100 for this operation).
Yup, that's right! Good Tip :)