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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. an idea.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    get an easy to remember yet reasonably obscure url, put your bookmarks there, and dont tell anyone that url, or link to the url from anywhere (so that google wont find it), or put the page in your robots.txt file.

    yeah - it's security through obscurity - but it'll fly.

    1. Re:an idea.... by unsanity · · Score: 2, Insightful

      this is not "secret"--and don't even mention secure--as you're "obscure" URL will be showing up as the refer in the webserver logs. And a lot of sites generate stats dirctly from these logs (or just dump them to a web-viewable file). Should google crawl to one of these stats pages, you'll soon find your bookmarks showing up in searches for .. whatever it is you're bookmarking.

      Sure, use robots.txt to solve some of that dilemma, but that won't keep a person from following the link on his own. I admit that i obsessively check out most of my refers :)

      a "secret" page really can't have any links (outside your machine).

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      vOv
  2. CVS! by balog · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Put up a CVS repository somewhere you have a shell, create a script that does things in this order:

    1: updates your bookmark file against the cvs
    2: starts mozilla
    3: commits any changes (to be run when mozilla exits, of course)

    Of course this seems like overkill, but it'd work
    (now i know what i'll be doing the rest of the afternoon. ;))

    BTW. This would have the added bonus of having the possibility to delete bookmarks you haven't used for a while without loosing them for ever...

  3. Re:Roll your own, or use mine. by Zapman · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've contemplated doing something like this for a while. Then a new feature came along to make it more challenging:

    "Bookmark this group of tabs"

    I love this feature. It's how I lay out my morning reading. One click, and then it's ctrl-W until done. All my comics, all the blogs, and a weather report.

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    Zapman
  4. Merging is non-trivial by Ian+Jefferies · · Score: 2, Insightful

    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.

    Merging two or more files that have a common ancestor isn't a trivial thing to do: a simple text document is the most straight forward. Format dependent text files (e.g. program source, XML) need knowledge of the file format and may require testing for correctness after the merge. Binary file formats require intimate knowledge of the file format and (most likely) re-interpretation in a user friendly way during the merge process.

    A great deal of user intervention is required for what is supposed to be a largely automated process.

    Ian.

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    A physicist is an atom's way of thinking about atoms