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Posted by Cassius
Aug 31, 2013 at 01:32 AM
Why not use a 2-pane PIM that can handle links? Then, no matter what browser you use, you can open the links in it. Also, the left pane acts as a table of contents and the FIND function acts as an index.
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 31, 2013 at 04:52 PM
Linkstash is exactly that—a 2-pane outline optimised for organising links. For personal use I find it ideal. But I can also understand the social sharing approach for which PIMs are far from ideal.
I find it harder to justify reliance upon a specific browser from my point of view. For several years I found Firefox worked fine, but after a certain point it simply didn’t—and then I was really glad I didn’t have to migrate my bookmarks.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 2, 2013 at 07:40 PM
Yes, this is the way I’ve gone, too. But for me, there’s no point in a bookmarking app that isn’t cross-platform. Increasingly, I gravitate to three apps:
Notebooks (by Alfons Schmid), which runs on iOS, MacOS and Windows.
Seamless Dropbox connectivity. Outstanding reproduction of web pages (I use it as a much more efficient, multilingual version of Surfulater). Excellent search function, although a bit slow over very large collections like mine!
As Noted, which runs on iOS and as a Google Chrome extension
Very neat layout, easy setup, perfectly designed for relatively short notes. Good search function.
Priorities, which runs on iOS and as a web service
Outstandingly simple but clever task management app, ideal for collaboration, excellent for saving notes and URLs as well as complex projects and todos. I’ve used every task management app under the sun, and have finally returned - definitively - to Priorities.
Posted by Franz Grieser
Sep 2, 2013 at 08:05 PM
Hi.
I never thought of Notebooks (iOS, Mac, Windows) as a bookmark manager. Do you really use it for that purpose? Or more as an Evernote replacement?
Thanks, Franz
Posted by MadaboutDana
Sep 2, 2013 at 08:24 PM
If I think about it, I suppose I use it more as an Evernote replacement (including Evernote’s function as a URL repository!). Notebooks preserves the look and feel of web pages better than any other cross-platform editor I’ve ever found, so it’s a great place to save snippets. It also supports Markdown. The nice thing is, Notebooks data is all saved as separate folders and HTML documents, so it’s easy to view or search without necessarily having Notebooks at all.
For quick ‘n’ easy bookmarking, I increasingly use As Noted, however. I can easily copy As Noted notes into Notebooks in any case, either on the desktop or on my iPad.