Inky-Linky makes web pages 100% more useful and irritating when printed. It’s a bookmarklet that adds a QR code to the margins for each external link in the page.
It came about because I wanted to make it easy to visit a link from a printed page, and also wanted to see if I could find an actual useful use for the much (rightly) maligned QR code.
Although it just about works there are, or course, quite a few things wrong with it.
- It really doesn’t work very well on very busy pages with lots of links.
- The layout algorithm could be a bit smarter when deciding which margin to use (e.g. links on the right of the page should ideally prefer to be shown in the right margin, rather than blindly alternating).
If that doesn’t put you off, and you want to try it for yourself, here’s the Inky Linky repository and installation page. Enjoy.
(Oh, hello Boingboing!)
Good idea Roo, I’ve dragged the “marklet to my bookmarks bar”… and shall try it out.
Just thought I would tell you this is a sick idea!
Great work.