This page discusses a few ways that you can use various web browser features to help you Get Things Done.
1 Bookmark Change Checking as "Undated Tickler File"
 Bookmark Change Checking as "Undated Tickler File"
Quite often, I'll find pages on the web whose development I want to track, but which lack content right now. A current example is a web page for a conference I'll be attending some months hence. It's only a placeholder now, but I want to know when more details appear. I find it useful to bookmark such a page in my browser and have it check for changes on a daily basis. This allows me to be notified when there's something new to process.
You can schedule pages with WebSpeedReader, a Windows browser based on Internet Explorer. Schedule a page to open automatically every day, every weekday, a particular day of the month, a particular weekday in a particular week, or in other ways simply by adding the page as a Favorite and filling in the appropriate boxes on the form.
Safari doesn't natively support such a feature, but there appears to be a third-party soluton, the (imaginatively-named) SafariBookmarkChecker.
This feature is built in. You can turn it on in the bookmark info pane.
Some blog sites supply RSS feeds for the comments to a particular post. It can be useful to use RSS subscription (or, indeed, the abovementioned bookmark checking) to keep up with the comments on a post with little effort. I tend to prefer to use a bookmark folder in OmniWeb for this, rather than my RSS reader.
Simply click on the link to see the RSS feed for comments and bookmark it. It will automatically refresh each time you run Safari or click the bookmark.
Omniweb supports RSS feeds. You can click on RSS links to subscribe to them.
Firefox supports RSS feeds with its Live Bookmark feature. A live bookmark icon appears in the status bar on any page with an RSS feed. Live bookmarks can easily be added to the toolbar and provide a quick dropdown view of the most recent articles posted to your favorite sites.
Of course, you can use your favourite RSS reader to subscribe to an RSS feed.
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