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Posted by JohnK
Jan 22, 2009 at 01:59 PM
Knowledge Workshop: Interesting product, but I’m reluctant even to give it a trial because the way they structure the editions is just plain annoying.
The free “personal” version is limited to 500 notes/items—effectively a trial version. I’ve no problem with that.
But the “plus” version ($49) also has a limit to the number of entries (2000). Only the “professional” edition ($99) takes away the limit on entries. In the end, if you use this product in earnest for a long period, you will be forced to upgrade to the pro edition just to add more notes. Which makes it an expensive product in its category.
This type of purely arbitrary product limitation is irritating. I understand charging more for complex/business-oriented features such as shared databases/network access etc. But placing a limit on the number of notes in a note-taking application is just bizarre.
Posted by Ken
Jan 22, 2009 at 04:26 PM
I startee a similar thread last month and the three products that offered a solution that might meet my needs were IQ (still in beta), Surfulator and LinkStash. I really like all three programs, and was going to use Surfulator, but decided I was not yet ready to start capturing web pages. As IQ is still in development, I am waiting to see how the final product develops, although the beta releases are quite mature in many of the the program’s feature sets. In the end, I ordered Link Stash, recommended by Alexander IIRC, and it seems to best meet my needs. It is not a hard program to learn or use, its portable, and it is browser neutral. If you do not need to actually capture the web page’s content, this is a nice program worth consideration. If surfulator was portable, I might have started with it instead.
—Ken
Posted by Ike Washington
Jan 24, 2009 at 03:35 PM
I agree with $Bill. The tag features in Firefox 3 together with a couple of add-ons make it a great bookmark manager. Pretty innovative, even.
With Firefox using SQLite to store bookmarks, with automatic backups in case the database gets corrupted, I don’t see the need for using a dedicated bookmarks manager like LinkStash or Powermarks. And Firefox on a stick is easier enough to set up if you need to access bookmarks while on the move. Even better, Firefox 3.1, currently in beta, has new and improved bookmarking features: http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Firefox_3DOT1_Will_Add_More_Awesomeness_to_the__Awesome_Bar_
Of course, I’d much rather Powermarks still worked with Firefox. The greatest, fastest, slickest bookmark manager ever: a detailed thread on this over at http://www.donationcoder.com/Forums/bb/index.php?PHPSESSID=vroiq47cmte73g9l60ioedn7t0&topic=13754.0 . I’ve been using it since 2001 - over 10,000 bookmarks… and that’s not many compared to serious Powermark users.
For getting Firefox 3 to do what jimspoon requires, I recommend tweaking its already excellent tag features with the TagSifter, Add Bookmark Here 2, Tagging for Multiple Bookmarks, Taboo and Read it Later add-ons.
I use these to manage articles, journal pdfs in the Firefox Scrapbook add-on as well as site urls. I’d include the Firefox Zotera add-on, but I find Zotero takes up too much space - what with a left-hand panel always open for TagSifter and Scrapbook. If I needed to save full citations for academic work, I’d use it.
Ike
Posted by Ike Washington
Jan 24, 2009 at 03:43 PM
Pity there isn’t an editing feature on this forum. I meant to add in the post above that, unlike $Bill, I’m adding bookmarks to Firefox for the long haul. My worry is that the SQLite database won’t be up to the job. Does anyone have any experience with SQLite? How much it can hold? Do I have to worry about it slowing Firefox down - once it reaches, say, 5,000, 10,000 plus bookmarks? How stable is it?
Ike
Posted by $Bill
Jan 24, 2009 at 09:44 PM
Ike Washington wrote:
> My worry is that the
>SQLite database won’t be up to the job. Does anyone have any experience with SQLite?
>How much it can hold? Do I have to worry about it slowing Firefox down - once it reaches,
>say, 5,000, 10,000 plus bookmarks? How stable is it?
Very stable.
From the SQLite documents: “If you need to store and modify more than a few dozen GB of data, you should consider using a different database engine.”
This might comfort you…you can see other well known users of SQLite here. http://www.sqlite.org/famous.html