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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. 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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  5. 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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