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Organizing Your Bookmarks?

Posted by Cliff on from the replacing-the-string-on-the-finger-trick dept.

ckrause asks: "What is everybody using to keep their bookmarks organized? I tried backflip.com but their indexing engine didn't work very well and their search engine was even worse. The problem is that I have got so many good bookmarks, but I have no way to find the one I am looking for. How is everybody handling this? Are you using some software or are you just browsing through them every time you are trying to find that special page you bookmarked three months ago? I think this is a major usability issue for the web. It is one thing to remember Amazon.com when you need a book, but it is impossible to memorize some page three clicks deep on some fully scripted WWW site." (Read More)

A good question, but I must ammend to this a bit. Tracking bookmarks is not a usability issue for the web. It's an organizational issue on the client side. Therefore solutions that work for one person may not always work for everybody. With that said, it would still help out to share ideas and let ckrause pick the method (or combination of methods) that will work the best for him.

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  1. bk2site by cybersquid · · Score: 3
    I use bk2site. This generates a nice series of yahoo-like HTML pages from my netscape bookmarks file.

    A cron job updates the pages once an hour. There's even a search feature.

    Of course, you'll still want to do some organizing and categorizing.

  2. freshmeat to the rescue... by Slynkie · · Score: 3

    Just posted today: "bookmarker is a WWW-based application for managing bookmarks. It allows multiple users to list, search, maintain, and create bookmarks. It is written in PHP using PHPLIB, which allows support for multiple databases. bookmarker includes functions to store URLs and send URLs via email directly from your browser (quik-mark, mail-this-link) using Javascript functions that link directly to the application. Netscape bookmark import is included as well as public/private settings to allow some/all bookmarks to be shared among users."
    it's appindex record is at http://core.freshmeat. net/appindex/1998/11/22/911774014.html

  3. Personal Toolbar Folder by Tony+Shepps · · Score: 3
    People don't use this enough. The personal toolbar folder accepts folders, so I've created six folders: Daily, Weekly, Occasional, Search, Portals, Clients/Hot.

    Everything in those folders is one click and one move away from being activated. Because it's Netscape and not IE, the folders aren't automatically alphabetized, so your muscle memory can learn where everything is.

    The Daily contains those things I visit, yes, DAILY. Inside the folders I use horizontal rules to create categories that make sense. This method can bookmark as many as 50 sites that I want to return to on a regular basis.

    The rest of the bookmarks, then, becomes a place to stow stuff that I want to remember, but that I won't visit until there's call for it. And that makes sense for usability -- I'll go a step further to find a shopping folder, references folder, HTML and design folder.