Pukka
Probably my favourite little application in a quite a while is Pukka. It does relatively little, but makes what it does do – posting to del.icio.us – an absolute cinch. del.icio.us itself has a simple but well thought out web-based interface which I really like, but, even with the bookmarklet, it can still be slow waiting for web pages to load when you just want to file something away and get on with things.
Pukka allows you to post a link either by dragging a URL to it or by using its bookmarklet, which works in a similar way to the regular bookmarklet, pre-filling the URL and Title fields automatically for you. Pukka caches your existing tags regularly and provides the handy type-ahead suggestions you’d expect. It handles duplicate URLs well too, helping you keep your account nice and tidy.
I’d recommend you take a quick dive into the settings and set it to hide itself after submitting a post, regardless of how long this takes. It will then notify you via Growl once it’s been successfully added, if you wish.
Even though it keeps things simple, Pukka still has an extra couple of tricks up its sleeve. Right clicking on the dock icon allows you to navigate your bookmarks via tag and, more recently, it’s also started caching a local copy of your bookmarks for searching in Spotlight. This is still a bit hit-and-miss unfortunately it seems but Justin, the developer, pushes out updates regularly so this is bound to get even better.
January 7th, 2008 | Applications • Apple/OS X |
