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Posted by Armin
Aug 27, 2013 at 07:55 AM
I use https://pinboard.in/ after I quit delicious. It’s a fast social bookmarking tool without any ads or other stuff which could slow down the bookmarking process.
It’s not for free but 10.19 USD is not very expensive for a one-time fee. The “author” of Pinboard is very active and go-getting with a quick response time, if there are any questions or problems (my experience).
Regards
Armin
Posted by WSP
Aug 27, 2013 at 09:45 AM
Like Garland, I use mainly the Chrome bookmark bar and Evernote.
The main advantage of the Chrome bar is that it’s extremely quick and easy to use—and always visible. (And of course it syncs very smoothly across several computers and devices.)
In Evernote, on the other hand, I can annotate and tag the bookmarks to my heart’s content.
So my rule of thumb is this: if I think I will use a bookmark fairly often, I record it in Chrome; if I want to keep it for just occasional reference purposes, I put it in Evernote.
I confess that I also have a ton of old bookmarks in the Chrome “Other bookmarks” folder, but that now strikes me as an uneasy compromise. I have to dig around quite a bit to find something there. One of these days, when I find time, I will try to shift the “Other bookmarks” into Evernote, where they really belong.
Bill
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 27, 2013 at 08:46 PM
Like Steve, I use Linkstash as my main ‘classic’ bookmarker. It is light, fast and browser-agnostic. The latter is particularly important for me as over the years my main browser has been Opera, then Firefox, then Chrome, and I often switch between several during work sessions. Linkstash has always been their faithful companion and, as a result, my bookmarks represent one of my longest lasting databases within a single program. Linkstash will happily run even under Linux with Wine.
I’ve also delved into ‘social’ bookmarking, but I would say that this is different terrain altogether, for me at least: here the aim is not just to maintain for one’s own use, but also to jointly rate, discuss, exchange, learn etc. As a result, the links I’ve shared represent a much filtered subset of my full database, in an effort to find common topics with others in the various communities.
Posted by Garland Coulson
Aug 27, 2013 at 10:59 PM
WSP wrote:
Like Garland, I use mainly the Chrome bookmark bar and Evernote.
>
>The main advantage of the Chrome bar is that it’s extremely quick and
>easy to use—and always visible. (And of course it syncs very smoothly
>across several computers and devices.)
>
>In Evernote, on the other hand, I can annotate and tag the bookmarks to
>my heart’s content.
>
>So my rule of thumb is this: if I think I will use a bookmark fairly
>often, I record it in Chrome; if I want to keep it for just occasional
>reference purposes, I put it in Evernote.
>
>I confess that I also have a ton of old bookmarks in the Chrome “Other
>bookmarks” folder, but that now strikes me as an uneasy compromise. I
>have to dig around quite a bit to find something there. One of these
>days, when I find time, I will try to shift the “Other bookmarks” into
>Evernote, where they really belong.
>
>Bill
Thanks Bill for this.
I did play with Linkman lite and relogged into my old Diigo account. But to me the Chrome bookmarks look faster to get to the pages than Linkman or Diigo because they are always there at the top of the browser. I guess I would need a more compelling reason or need to change to one of the others. From a straight access perspective, the Chrome bookmarks seem the most direct.
I can certainly clean up my Chrome bookmarks a bit to make them more useful.
Posted by Donovan
Aug 28, 2013 at 12:01 AM
I guess my bookmarking doesn’t come close to my CRIMPing - I use Delicious.