What’s in your right-click menu?

I think this is a very revealing space.  Here’s mine.

 

There are items in here for  gathering information like Zotero and Diigo. (See margins for details.)

 

I could use bookmarklets for each of these tools but right-click seems to have less friction between the task at hand and getting it done.

 

 

I love Pocket because it allows me to save and LISTEN to posts and articles on my phone later (on the tractor, in the field, walking, commuting).  I think of this as personal curation. I listen as a way to identify any piece of information that might need a deeper look so that I can share it  or include it as I synthesize it in a blog post or article.

 

 

SnagIt is in my right-click menu.  I have keyboard combinations like command+shift+4 on my Mac that will do an immediate screencapture, but often I want to annotate the image for an online class, personal creation, or sharing with a colleague.

 

 

 

Share on (Better) Tweetdeck uses an add-on to bring more tools to my favorite Twitter client.  The video below shows just how quickly you can go from content to sharing that content—three clicks.

 

Last, I use Add This for sharing to other digital spaces.

 

This extension allows you to add hundreds  of networking tools that you might want to share to.

I have not included all of the items in my context menu or discussed how to add them.  That’s what Google is for. And please don’t get me started on bookmarklets and other extensions.  I judge all of these tools by a simple yardstick question: do they help me gather, make sense of, and share my digital world?  If they do that very well, then here they stay until something else better supplants them.

I know well that others have these better tools or better workflows, so share your right-click goodies with me no matter how idiosyncratic they might seem so that I can get better at sharing back at you.  You can go to the comments below or you can use Hypothes.is to share in the margins here.