Ask HN: Most Useful Bookmarklet?

[andrewparker]

Got any killer bookmarklets you like?

My favorite right now is "Instacalc", with "Zap Colors" coming in close second.

[BSeward]

I find http://www.sprymedia.co.uk/article/Design Design to be really handy when I'm making sure text line cadence is right. It's handy all around for design: powerful grid, rulers, measuring, and targeting tools.

http://westciv.com/xray/ XRAY keeps a spot on my bookmark bar. It's an HTML-traversing bookmarklet that lets me figure what's going on with underlying HTML and positioning CSS without leaving the page. It's been somewhat marginalized since Safari's Web Inspector started rocking so hard.

They; InstaPaper (also great); and Delicious/Facebook/Yahoo Bookmarks share/post bookmarklets are what currently dominate my bookmark bar.

[raju → BSeward]

Wow! Thanks for Design and XRAY. Those look to be pretty useful.

[ichverstehe]

http://www.instapaper.com/ – definitely. It's so darn useful.

[myoung → ichverstehe]

i'm a little biased, but check out http://shifd.com/tools similar to instapaper, delicious, etc in that you can bookmark links, but you can also do plain text (notes, addresses, recipes, etc). one use i like - you can highlight addresses on a page and click the bookmarklet which will save to shifd.com...then you can access the address+map on your phone.

[chrisbolt → ichverstehe]

See also http://www.laterloop.com/ for something very similar

[tlrobinson]

This JavaScript console w/ autocompletion, etc: http://tlrobinson.net/misc/console_bookmarklet.html

[vanekl]

http://turtle.dojotoolkit.org/~david/recss.html

[strick]

"Gmail This" is great: http://contrapants.org/blog/2005/07/gmailthis.html

[DTrejo → strick]

In my view it is better than Google Reader's "note this" (followed by emailing). I say this because GmailThis! does not insert propaganda. It simply pastes the link and preps you to email to a friend.

[jacobbijani]

The only ones I use are "Post to Tumblr" and "Save to pHome.us" (my site).

I submitted this handy bookmarklet the other day: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=206066

It translates between local and remote urls, including the stuff after the domain. http://example.local/user/foo becomes http://www.example.com/user/foo

[akirk]

http://www.blummy.com/ "The bookmarklet management bookmarklet"

Sorry for the plug, but it fits well :) Since I wrote Blummy, I have not changed it much, but IMO it is still useful. The database contains 400 bookmarklets to add to your own blummy.

Also see http://alexander.kirk.at/2006/08/02/unknown-blummy-treasures...

[seregine]

I like the one for http://faves.com, primarily because it's the social bookmarking app most of my friends use. Del.icio.us is the other one.

[ivankirigin]

I tip sites I like with this: http://tipjoy.com/bookmarklet

We're going to expand on the functionality soon.

[petercooper]

The one that I use to post the current page to del.icio.us with. I've clicked it several thousand times in the past few years.

[bigtoga]

Tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/

[ScottWhigham → bigtoga]

I use TinyUrl and the Wikipedia bookmarklet more than any others: javascript:(function(){q=document.getSelection(); if(!q){void(q=prompt('Wikipedia keywords:',''))}; if(q)location.href='http://en.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?search='+escape(q)})()

Here's an amazon.com lookup one as well: javascript:void(q=prompt('Enter%20text%20to%20search%20Amazon.',getSelection()));if(q)void(location.href='http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/external-search/?keyword='...(q)+'&mode=blended&tag=blogography00-20&Go=Go')

[mudge]

http://newsconomy.com/

[faizur]

http://www.plum.com

[joshwa]

The bookmarklet for the app I'm building... :)