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Posted by Garland Coulson
Aug 26, 2013 at 05:05 AM
I have been wondering if there is a better way to do bookmarking. I do two types right now.
1. Chrome Bookmark Bar:
I use this for quick access to sites I use regularly like keyword tools, stock photo sites, forums like this one, etc. I have folders and subfolders and the bookmarks in a hierarchal structure.
2. Evernote:
I use the “clip to Evernote” tool on my computer and mobile devices to save articles to read later and to save web sites and other content into my personal knowledge database.
Years ago, I played with Stumbleupon and Digg, but they didn’t seem as fast as just using the bookmarks toolbar.
But lately I am wondering if I am missing something by not using another system. I noticed Pearltrees mentioned in another thread and it looks intriguing, but I think it would be slower than what I am doing now although the visual aspect is appealing.
I know there are some benefits in social sharing and social discovery using some of the other bookmarking service but are these worth giving up the speed of just using the bookmark toolbar?
What bookmark tool do you all use and what made you choose it?
Thanks
Garland “Captain Time”
Posted by Steve
Aug 26, 2013 at 12:34 PM
Bookmarking can mean many things. If you mean capturing web addresses I use two:
1. Linkstash; http://www.xrayz.co.uk/linkstash/ . This is my main storage program. The main reasons I like it are: 1) it finds bookmarks on the fly by just typing in the words or URL. Keywords, descriptions, whatever all work well. 2) Easy cleanup with the “dead link check” and duplicate check. There’s more about it on the web site.
2. Roboform; I use its bookmarking primarily for temporary holding and transferring of sites between devices.
Steve
Posted by Daly de Gagne
Aug 26, 2013 at 02:48 PM
About six months ago I started using Linkman Pro - it is the fastest, most comprehensive bookmarking tool I have found.
http://www.outertech.com/en/bookmark-manager
Daly
Posted by Ken
Aug 26, 2013 at 03:43 PM
I tiried Linkstash a number of years ago, but finally settled on Diigo. I have modest needs for bookmarking, but Diigo works for me, as it runs as an extension in Chrome at home, a bookmarklet in IE at work, and in the Safari toolbar on my iPad.
—Ken
Posted by Dr Andus
Aug 26, 2013 at 08:55 PM
Bookmarking is also a problem area for me. I use the bookmarks toolbar in Firefox and several Protopage tabs for my most frequently used bookmarks. Then I also have some less frequently used bookmarks in Firefox’s bookmarks’ menu.
I capture important web page content (which includes bookmarks) with Surfulater. I use the free version of Linkman to capture URLs that are not important but I need to revisit them (e.g. to do research for shopping and then going back to do the purchase).
I drag and drop project-specific links into ConnectedText topics. I also have some bookmarks in Instapaper on my iOS devices, but it never occurs to me to access those on my PC for some reason (out of sight, out of mind…).
It’s a bit of a mess and I wouldn’t mind a cross-platform system for consolidating all of the above (with the exception of Surfulater and CT stuff). I guess I’d need a good way of differentiating between different degrees of importance, and hide the less important stuff from view, but make it easy to call it up.