Wish List

i want a way to keep track of the things I want. Being the geek that I am, I did a search for wishlist applications. Amazingly enough wishlistr.com came up. Taking a brief look at it, I decided it had potential. I thought about what I wanted in my desired app. Here’s what I came up with:

• publicly viewable
• use clean urls
• login with OpenID to edit my list
• easy to use
• works with any product (not just products on a single site)

i asked my followers on Twitter for recommendations. The Amazon wish list was mentioned by several people. It works very well with anything on Amazon. Supposedly It works for non-amazon items with a little extra work.  Deciding that i didn’t want to do any extra work, I signed up for wishlistr.com to try it out. It met all my criteria so I created some entries for my shiny new account.

The lightweight entry of wishlistr was nice and simple. It felt familiar from the first entry i made, but couldn’t put my finger on why. Then I was visiting my friend Cassie Wallender’s website, and she has her own wish list, which is driven by delicious.com using a tag ‘wishlist’. Of course! It’s so simple! Wishlistr felt familiar because it’s similar to my magnolia.com bookmarks. I’m now using Magnolia with a tag of ‘wishlist’.

Remember to bookmark my wishlist and keep it in mind for the holidays :-D