Kate Elim, Lake Anna Real Estate Specialist

Do you Bookmark or E-mail Active Rain blogs that interest you?  I've been on Active Rain for a bit over three years and I have way too many bookmarked blogs.  What do I do with them?  I ignore them.  Yes, that's sad to say but it is exactly what I do.

I have way too many bookmarks and absolutely no idea how to find the one I want.  Yet I found that pretty frustrating because there was an absolutely good reason why I bookmarked them in the first place.  I wanted to re-read them, to have them available when I could make better use of the information they provided.

Eventually I pretty much gave me up on bookmarking additional posts...and that hurt!  There is such a treasure trove of terrifically useful information Active Rain members share with one another.  I wanted to find a way to be able to access those posts effectively.

There were so many bookmarked posts that provided new ideas on how to market myself, tips on better serving buyers and sellers here at Lake Anna, how to better understand the magic of SEO, and loads of other topics that I wanted this resource available.

There had to be a better way for me to do that.  Maybe some of you have found your own way to find what you wanted in your bookmarks quickly and easily.  Finally it came to me.

I began to email them to myself.  Yes.  Right next to the icon for bookmarking, above the comment box, is the icon which enables you to email a post.  This is great when you want to share that post with someone else.  It is also great for emailing posts to yourself.

Once I receive the email with the link to the saved post I label it (one of the many great features available with Google email).  Deciding what labels I need is an ongoing project.  Without getting too specific and yet not lumping them all together with one label marked Active Rain takes some doing.  By looking back over some of the posts I had bookmarked and emailed to myself I was able to come up with a short list to get started.  This is definitely a work in progress. 

That spells success to me.  What the heck, anything that makes life a little easier is something to be grateful for.

If you have found a way to easily find the posts that are important to you pleasae let us know.  That is what is so great here at Active Rain, our willingness to share.