Search Your Delicious Bookmarks from Safari’s Search Box
Del.icio.us is my favorite way to keep track of and retrieve interesting things that I find online. My favorite addon for Safari is the search enhancer Inquisitor. Here’s how you can set up Inquisitor to search your personal Delicious bookmarks with a keystroke.
What You Need
A free Delicious account. Delicious is an online bookmarking service that lets you tag, share and search interesting or reference pages that you find online. I’ve been using Delicious for over two years now and have posted over a thousand pages to the service. Apart from the social aspects, storing your bookmarks in the cloud has the killer benefit that you can access them from whatever computer you happen to be in front of from where ever you are in the world.
Inquisitor. Inquisitor is a free Safari addon that adds Spotlight-like predictive search to Safari’s Google Search box. I’ve raved about it in the past. What makes Inquisitor so sublime, however, is that you can add custom search engines to Safari and assign a keyboard shortcut to each one. It’s a beautiful thing.
The Quickest Way to Search Your Delicious Bookmarks
To search your Delicious bookmarks from Safari, you’re first going to need a custom URL. Check it out:
http://delicious.com/search?p=%@&u=YOUR_USERNAME&chk=&context=userposts&fr=del_icio_us&lc=1
Replace YOUR_USERNAME with your Delicious user name (see it in the upper right corner of Delicious.com if you’re logged in). Copy your new URL onto the clipboard.
With Inquisitor installed, open up Safari’s preferences and select the new Search tab at the far right of the top pane (it bears the Inquisitor icon). Click on the ‘Edit Sites’ button and add your new custom engine. Assign it a keyboard shortcut if you’re set.
Let me know if you’re having any problems setting it up. If you have a favorite Del.icio.us client that you use, post a link in the comments. Happy bookmarking.
