Otavo is an Ontario, Canada based service that’s just moving into public beta today. With Otavo, users can ask and answer questions, organize and comment on bookmarks and share their goals in a social context.It is a new social bookmarking site with an interesting twist. Users can group tagged bookmarks under “quests†which are public search/research tools. While Otavo has similarites to successful social bookmarking models, it is quite different. Otavo‘s core concept is to organize your information on intentions (called “quests”) instead of tags. Tags are used as a secondary organizer.
What’s the difference between Tags and Intentions?
Tags are categories. As categories, a tag does NOT store HOW or WHY you would use the information tagged, just where it belongs in the grand scheme of things.
Intentions store HOW and WHY you want to use the information.
This allows users to organize information for a specific purpose instead of just filing it like a librarian.
