UPDATE: Also, it might be worth considering how you do use your personal nodelet. I used to use it to store bookmarks to interesting nodes, but that can cause the list to be rendered everytime. And I certainly didn't use, let alone glance, at the personal nodelet for the majority of page loads. You can avoid this be checking the "Collapse List" box on UserSettings. Another option, the one I favor, is to use "add to scratchpad" for interesting nodes. This would then free up the body of the nodelet for navigation links, just a thought.

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I still think bookmarks are the most appropriate solution for frequent visitors and that a configureable set of links is 0v3rk111.

I tend to agree that it's overkill... but just the same, I'd like it. :-)

FYI it's possible to get to the The Monastery Gates just by clicking on the PerlMonks link in the upper right.

Ah, so you can. I don't think I've used that before. So, knowing this, if the links at the top were configurable, I'd no longer include The Monastery Gates in them.

Also, it might be worth considering how you do use your personal nodelet.

Well, there's how I want to use it and how I do use it. Right now, I do tend to use it mostly as a queue of nodes I want to revisit.¹ I've been meaning to get away from doing that. The way I would prefer to use it is as a list of frequently referenced links. That way, when writing a node, I'd have the links I might reference right there rather than having to open another window and search for them. I don't think I'd prefer it for navigation in any case because it would require me to scroll down. I don't want to put it above the CB, because then using that would require me to scroll down even further (and my irritation with that is bad enough already.)

As for editing the link or typing it into the search field... well... yuck. I'm not a real fan of GUIs in the general case, but I do see the value of pointing and clicking over pointing, clicking, and typing. ;-)

1. There are exceptions to this. I have a couple nodes in there primarily for navigation, such as nodes to consider, for example. I also have one or two (ok, several) which are just generally interesting to me but which I haven't put on my homenode yet.

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I think the best mechanism for keeping a big list of interesting nodes (like nodes to revisit) is the browser bookmarks. It depends on browser of course but most are designed to manage a big list of bookmarks, and you can organise them in folders on most browsers. It is a bit slower then the personal nodelet (at least on Mozilla) since the usage of drop down two level menu, but thats a tradeoff.