Organizing Bookmarks

Posted by David Garner
Jul 19, 2020 at 11:01 AM

As I described above, I’m happy with using Chrome’s bookmarking system as an intake mechanism. It seems quite flexible and powerful. On today’s computers, it is very responsive and has had no problem manipulating the amount of data that I’ve collected over the last several years. I can generate an HTML file containing all the links I’ve gathered, and it is easy to process that file with other programs to do interesting things with the data.

I have found a bunch of tools and systems:

Raindrop (raindrop.io) will import the bookmarks.

Refind (refind.com) will import the bookmarks.

Bublup (bublup.com) will import the bookmarks.

Worldbrain Memex will import the bookmarks and browsing history.

Wakelet (wakelet.com) has what they call bookmarks, but I don’t see any way to get all my existing bookmarks into it.

Many of them have evolved during the time that I’ve been watching them. I’m still exploring what they will do, but so far, I’ve not identified a clear winner to help me organize and make sense of all the things which I’ve discovered and would like to better understand.

As I recall, VYM (http://www.insilmaril.de/vym/) View Your Mind, would import bookmarks and allow mind mapping. I need to revisit that. Wish they had a Windows version. Maybe it will run on WSL 2?

My hope is that someone will be able to direct me to the perfect tool, or to at least help me to better define, what I really want to do, to accomplish my goal of knowing about and keeping up with all things new to me.