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Most Usable Bookmark Managers?

Posted by Cliff on from the one-set-of-bookmarks-for-multiple-browsers dept.

stewartj asks: "I finally got sick of manually updating my large bookmarks collection between the computers I use at work and home. I've got a permanent connection at home and a personal webserver running, so I thought I'd install a bookmark manager. Searches on SourceForge and Freshmeat have brought up too many options to consider, so I thought I'd ask Slashdot readers if they have any recommendations for a good web-based bookmark manager? Is there a better solution to making my bookmarks available everywhere (but still keeping them secure)?"

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  1. Re:Here's what I do by PD · · Score: 5, Informative

    What a load of work. Everyone, look up a nice little program called 'unison'. It uses the rsync protocol to keep two directories in sync. It's even transitive. You can be working on client machine A, synchronize with server S, then move to client machine B and synchronize with server S. client A and client B will be synchronized with each other.

    I use it on a gigabyte of files in my home dir on my desktop and laptop. It synchronizes in less than 30 seconds on a 128kbit link.

    Everything is managed with a configuration file, so you don't need to manually remember what parts need to update and what don't, and where the little bits need to go in the directory tree.

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  2. Re:Here's what I do by PD · · Score: 4, Informative

    Oh, and I forgot to mention that unison will synchronize using a ssh tunnel. You will be secure.

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  3. Re:Things that come to mind by darkpurpleblob · · Score: 5, Informative
    Nothing will fix this until some kind of RFC standard is made (probably based on XML). It would be nice, but it is not for real.
    Although not an RFC standard, there is already an XML format for storing bookmarks called XBEL (XML Bookmark Exchange Language). You can find more about it here.
  4. For Mozilla... by elfkicker · · Score: 2, Informative

    Some guy has been working on this for over a year. Haven't tried his patch, but you might want to take a look...

    bug 124029

    I believe there are other bugs/implementations in bugzilla, so you might want to hunt around.

  5. yahoo bookmarks by zeenixus · · Score: 4, Informative

    yahoo has an online bookmark "manager" (for lack of a better term). Via my.yahoo.com (and a yahoo id) you can customize the the layout and content. Add the "my bookmarks" panel and then import (upload) your bookmarks to there. It supports netscape (and thus mozilla/phoenix), ie win32 and ie for macs.

    I upload my bookmarks every so often manually, although I'm sure with some hacking one can make a script to automate the procedure (maybe someone already has). If you don't "yahoo", I'm sure there are other free online services that have an equivilent.

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    1. Re:yahoo bookmarks by seanmeister · · Score: 2, Informative

      Also - you can add your Yahoo bookmarks to the Mozilla sidebar using the following procedure:

      1. Make sure your Moz sidebar is visible (press F9)
      2. Go to this page.
      3. Enter "Yahoo Bookmarks" (or whatever you want) in the Tab Name field.
      4. Enter the following URL in the Tab URL field:

        http://my.yahoo.com/internet/t/sites.html

      5. Click the Preview Tab button - this will actually add the tab to your sidebar.

      Works for me :-)

  6. Re:Here's what I do by muleboy · · Score: 2, Informative

    What happens if you make changes on client A, forget to sync, then make changes on client B? That seems to me like a likely thing to happen unless the sync is either automatic or you are very reliable about remembering to do it (I am not).

    I wrote a crude script that will sync bookmarks A and B, but it's not release quality. A really nice GUI version of that is needed.

  7. FOUND IT! by mildness · · Score: 4, Informative
    link to unison proggie

    Not just Karma whoring, I'm downloading now. (:-{)}

    Thanks for the heads-up PD.

    Cheers,

    Bill

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  8. ACAP by Engdy · · Score: 2, Informative

    Does anyone have any experience with ACAP, the Application Configuration Access Protocol? It's somehow related to the Cyrus IMAP project, and claims to be able to store bookmarks, address book, etc. in a central location. Are there any ACAP clients?

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  9. Re:Here's what I do by ibennetch · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here is the manual's information on conflicts and conflict resolution. If I'm reading it correctly, it prompts you to decide what to do. Although it doesn't seem to mention what I consider to be the idea solution -- merging the files so you don't loose anything from either machine.

  10. Great timing! I just wrote SiteBar by mindslip · · Score: 2, Informative

    Hi!

    Great timing on your question. I just wrote SiteBar, which is a very convienent, low-demand server based bookmark organizer.

    The nicest bit, is it's made to run in the Mozilla/Netscape Sidebar, but can just as easily be run in a main window.

    Looks just like your bookmark folder. I'm working on a Mozilla importer, so stay tuned.

    Sign up to use mine at:
    http://www.mindslip.org/sitebar

    or go get it at:
    http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/sitebar

    Hope it's as addicting to you as it is to me.

    mindslip