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LinkStash at Bits du Jour on Friday 24/4
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Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Apr 20, 2009 at 07:27 PM
http://www.bitsdujour.com/software/linkstash/
LinkStash is an excellent bookmarks manager that works with IE, Firefox and Opera (the reason I originally chose it). The latest build has added experimental support for Google Chrome. It has been discussed here in the past. It is the product of the same developer as ClipCache.
I have been using LinkStash for years and, frankly, I wish there were more programs like it: stable, fast, unintrusive, does what it says with minimal memory footprint and the processor probably doesn’t know it’s there. It can be ran from a USB stick so that you can carry your bookmarks everywhere. Given its power and minimal resource use, it often makes me wonder what ‘contemporary’ bloatware really does.
The only thing I miss are cloned items, i.e. available in more than one folders (though I am unaware of any bookmark manager that boasts such a feature), but one can work around it with tags.
Posted by Ken
Apr 21, 2009 at 03:03 PM
I purchased it on Alexander’s recommendation and find it to be quite useful. I especially like that it runs off of a USB drive so I can carry it with me to work.
—Ken
Posted by moritz
Apr 23, 2009 at 07:35 AM
carrying around a USB stick for this is a total anachronism IMHO when there are web based synchronization services like Mesh.com.
Unfortunately the LinkStash licensing schema would have required me to purchase full licenses for each of my PCs.
No way this product is worth $150 to me on that basis ...
So I’ll keep using PersonalBrain for URL bookmarking which is well suited to the task except for the longer startup times and lack of direct browser integration (drag&drop works fine but there’s no toolbar or contextual menu).
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Apr 23, 2009 at 10:52 AM
moritz wrote:
>carrying around a USB stick for this is a total anachronism IMHO
Darn, and I had managed to slip by any discussion on my age quite nicely all this time :-)
Posted by Ken
Apr 26, 2009 at 09:51 PM
moritz wrote:
>carrying around a USB stick for this is a total anachronism IMHO when there are web
>based synchronization services like Mesh.com.
Can you explain how you are using Mesh for bookmarking? Or are you just using it to synchronize the file containing the bookmarks? If its the latter, than what web based bookmarking software do you recommend instead of LinkStash?
—Ken