StumbleUpon is a fantastic tool for blogging – whether for research, inspiration or promotion it’s hard to beat it, but I think if we’re honest it’s number one use is to distract us from what we really should be doing!

Work, writing a new post, interacting with your family, all these things fall by the wayside to the tune of ‘just one more Stumble’, so in order to assist you in your work-dodging endeavours, just check out this list of 40+ tools, scripts and tutorials in The StumbleUpon Toolbox.

Lots to choose from, and here’s three I’ve already made use of:

1. StumbleCrumble: I’ve posted earlier on how to include a list of your recent Stumbles in your sidebar using an RSS feed, but this WordPress plugin makes it even easier, and is fully customisable to stop it spreading long URLs across your page etc. It only takes seconds to install as well. See it in my left sidebar.
2. Quick Tag: Despite knowing that adding tags to your Stumbles gives them greater legs, I’m usually too lazy to add enough. This Greasemonkey script for FireFox enables you to quickly add popular and useful tags.
3. Best Friends: Although only you can see the results of this script, it adds a ‘Best Friends’ section to your Stumble profile, so you can bring all your favourite Stumblers to the top, for easy access.

Lots more to choose from in the toolbox, from the simple to the in-depth. Do you know of any they’ve missed? I’m always interested to hear how I can make my procrastination easier…….