The next innovative step to Getting Things Done without actually putting forth the effort has arrived, with bookmarklets. Its fairly self explanatory in that the bookmarklet is stored in your browser the same way that you would bookmark a page. The only difference between the two is that while a bookmark takes you to your particular favorite page; the bookmarklet enables you to preform an action right from your browser that before would only be possible by going to your favorite page.
Strange concept I know, but here is an example:
Say you have a Google bookmarklet, click on it and instead of streamlining straight to the Google home page a small window pops up and will allow you to enter your search topics.
Try for yourself… go to WorldTimZone and pick a bookmarklet. Drag one of the bookmarklets up to your bookmark panel and then go back in, click and see what happens. (There is a Goolge bookmarklet under “Search Engines“)
With the right Bookmarklet you can also:
-Modify the way you view someone’s page
-Extract data from a page
-Search more quickly, and in different ways than with a traditional search engine
-Navigate in new ways
