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Online Bookmark Manager Suggestions?
nonLocal Bookmarks asks: "I have been looking for an online bookmark manager to allow me access to my bookmarks at various computers. There are a bunch of them out there, but most of them use the traditional tree structure. I am looking for something that lists everything cleanly on one page. The only one I can find so far that does this is SiteJot. But this site is missing a few other features I am looking for. I was wandering if any Slashdot readers could recommend a good bookmark manager?"
This question has been asked on Ask Slashdot how many times now? Someone else please go and dig up the links for me.
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Sitebar www.sitebar.org. You need LAMP to run it, but it works great for me. It has multi-user accounts so I can setup accounts for whoever I want to maintain bookmarks. Since it's hosted, you can be anywhere. I prefer it because I like to have my bookmarks available whether I'm at home, at work, or at a cybercafe.
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This lets you manage bookmarks, share them with other users, and let your browse their lists.
http://del.icio.us/
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http://del.icio.us
Cross Platform Browser Bookmark Autosyncing?.
Perhaps someone should bookmark this?
is a firefox plugin that syncs the builtin bookmarks via an FTP site.
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No really. I use google.
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http://del.icio.us/
The best one I know of.
IMHO, linkagogo.com is the best.
If you go to the download tab, it can export as a bookmark file, which can be automatically opened in a new window, giving you the single page you want.
A recently added feature is a weekly email of your bookmarks, so if the service does fold, at least you won't lose too many links.
Why not simply upload a really simple HTML page onto Geocities or some other free, limited use, hosting site? You can edit your list without a fancy applet too, if you like. Sure, your bookmarks are public. Just make sure you don't have any personally identifying information.
.html backups, and more folders.
If you are a privacy freak (no offense whatsoever, we love you guys), consider simply e-mailing the list to to some free HTML enabled web based e-mail client that you can later update through. It's that simple.
Firefox, Internet Explorer, Opera; they all export bookmark lists. Schedule your computer to automatically save them. Heck, maybe you could use GMail as a network drive as was suggested a while ago here on Slashdot. That way, you can always have a fresh bookmarks list at ready disposal, regardless of where you are.
Remember though, third party tools are never reliable. Birds fly south, snow melts, and companies go under. It's best just to manage your bookmarks the old fashioned way: folders,
http://del.icio.us/
Make you're own, toolbar links for quick access.
Also you can browse others links, and have your links as RSS feeds.
This is quite true, but it's also helpful to have a way to rapidly add URLs without typing out
What might be helpful is a simple plain text file format such as:
-- Heading
* http://url/ Title Text
This could then be converted into HTML automatically. I think txt2tags is one such tool (with a somewhat different input format).
What are these features? Telling us could help us find an alternative that better suits your needs.
If you don't like tree structures, why not just put all of your bookmarks in the root folder?
It's not hard to activate links... http://del.icio.us/> results in http://del.icio.us/. Ok, I know I'm lazy, but an extra 5 seconds in making your post makes it a better experience for all.
Thanks!
del.icio.us
Not only can you get your bookmarks from anywhere, but you can also share them with the rest of the world.
Even better than that, if you use firefox ( which I hope you do ) your bookmarks are stored as an html file. Just put this html file in any web accessible place, and you can visit it and whoah! your bookmarks are there.
I know another one. Get a USB thumb drive and carry your bookmarks with you.
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treemenu has a large variety of viewing methods. i use them for different purposes, but find it easy and friendly and fast when needed.
see also:
links
del.icio.us
bookmark4u
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and of course all the PIMs(personal information managers) in the works...
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. hmmm
Onfolio (bookmarks on steroids, currently IE-only but the beta 2.0 supports Firefox)
I posted a more detailed comparison of the two in my blog a while back here.
Bookmark Syncronizer
Works with ftp and http(s) WebDAV. Toodles.
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I like the bookmark manage I wrote.
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You can expand the folders to get it on one whole page if you want.
If you use a mozilla based browser you can add a link in your toolbar to add bookmarks to the manager.
http://coldstonelabs.org/index.jsp?projectIndex
I kid you not. My Dad initially kept his favorite sites on index/recipe cards and kept them in one of those little boxes. That's pretty portable.
He was impressed, however, when I showed him how to use browser bookmarks.
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How many features could you possibly want which would make it more complicated than the proccess of writing that message and clicking "submit"? It's a list of bookmarks and would possibly have an "import" and "export" button for as many as two whole browsers. If you started writing when you read the subject, you'd probably be done by now.
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I've got a very small and basic Wiki CGI script that I use as a glorified bookmark system. It's a modified version of the script that used to be available at Ward's Wiki at c2.com (back when that had a page which generated a custom script for you). That no longer seems to be available, but there are plenty of other Wiki implementations out there.
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Use a blog - and share those bookmarks
...funny this should come up - I have a site which does exactly this.
It's very light and text based and designed to run on anything.
For Firefox and IE I've taken advantage of the way they handle javascript to implement a quick add button - you can be on any site and click one of your quicklinks to add the site you are looking at to your online links database. It's a work in progress, and right now links can't be edited or deleted, but those features are very much on my to do list. If it doesn't do something you want just ask.
I use Bluesmiley Bookmark Manager, see Bookmark Manager, supports Import and Export of Bookmarks.
Real men just upload their bookmarks on ftp and let the rest of the world mirror it.
Thei reminds me of a story I tell to illustrate how idiotic my "years in the valley" were. I was working for this "dot.com" and on a lunch break at the local Bagel shop (you know the one...in that little shopping mall in Redwood shores next to the Starbucks...)
I was just sitting down to enjoy my lunch when I overhear a conversation:
Guy1: So they store the Bookmarks ONLINE and can access them wherever they are. The VC's think its a go, and are willing to shell out the 4 mill to get it going!
Guy2: Can't you just export the bookmark links to a file and save them locally as an HTML page? Carry that one file with you and just maintain the updates locally? Why would anyone want to use this as a Service...much less Pay for access??
Guy1: Did you not hear me...? Its gonna be ONLINE!. People will flock to it for that reason alone. We should have the capital by the end of the week!
Guy2: Still sounds like a stupid idea to me....
Just though I would share... ;-)
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It's meant for a browser's sidebar, and integrates tightly with IE, FireFox (via XPI), Opera, and of course Mozilla.
It also runs in it's own separate window, in the body of the browser, or even as an embedded section of any web page or blog app!
You can display your bookmarks with any of the included plug-ins, which include the standard multi-folder tree, an RSS feed, and a Google/Yahoo-like layout, which is more of what you may be looking for.
It's been designed from the ground, up with both small and large-scale needs in mind. It can handle multiple trees per user, with multiple groups/users per tree, and granular permissions (view/add/edit/delete/moderate) per link/folder. It's fully skinnable, and runs on any PHP/MySQL/Apache setup!
Go grab it or sign up!
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Creator, SiteBar.
Two applications I like a lot are:
Booby
and
APB.
APB is no longer in active development, but it still is a very usefull app. I use it on a daily basis. Both are LAMP applications.
Geez, I would have though the answer would be obvious.
iSync and dotMac
I discovered a new one, well, new to me.
http://www.spurl.net/
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Yahoo frikken dot com, or hotmail, or geoshitties, or whateverthefuck google comes up with in its first 47,000,000 results for 'free webmail'.
Step 2.
Export your bookmarks to html, even plain text - if your browser can't do this, then get a real god damn browser.
Step 3.
Email your bookmarks to the webmail account.
Step 4.
Access webmail.
Step 5*.
Stop being idiotic and asking people how to do something that you could find on your own in about 27 seconds with any decent search engine. This is like asking a mechanic how to fill up your gas tank.
(* Note: there is no 'Profit!!!' step, because if the the submitter can't be bothered to use a search engine, he/she shouldn't be on the intarweb in the first place)
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I use Firefox on my PC, which create a "bookmarks.html" file in the "~/.mozilla/firefox/utwnmzil.default/" directory. I have a cron job that periodically scp's this to a web server. My bookmarks are then available to me (or anyone I tell) anywhere, and I can secure them any way I choose.
Setting up an account with an outside service for this purpose seems unnecessary.
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s ee_my_ bookmarks.php
Use firefox. Download Bookmark synchronizer, and get your own webspace.
this check this link out.
http://www.koldark.net/archives/2004/09/17/
you can sync your bookmarks from home work etc, and using a xsl stylesheet, show them as a webpage. Updating the bookmark xbel file constantly, the page will always be new. Don:t worry about cron scripts or whatever. syncing between computers is the way to go.
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I store firefox on a hi-speed usb 2.0 drive. With a custom script (on Windows: yes, a .vbs file - I could have used a batch script but I didn't want a dos window), you can store your profile on the drive. This way I can carry everything with me - my bookmarks, history, and other nice things.
USB drives are useful for more than just firefox. I store some useful Java programs like jEdit and Saxon. I even have a copy of Cygwin for GNU hacking in Windows. Just learn how to use the windows scripting host. Even though it sometimes has lots of bugs (or, more precisely, too many Microsoft programs automatically run wsh scripts without safety measures); it'll simplify your life.
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Just bumped into this one http://www.annotea.org/mozilla/ubi.html
It allows you to organize bookmarks under topics and publish them as bookmarks files in RDF metadata format. Works on Mozilla (tried on v1.7) but Firefox 1.0 support is missing yet.
I use Amazons A9 toolbar. It runs on Firefox (Crossplatform .xpi) and IE. It's very nice and installs very quickly.
http://toolbar.a9.com/
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Spurl is a "social" bookmark site in the same vein as del.icio.us. In fact, the spurl "submit" form will also add the url to your del.icio.us account if you'd like.
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Wouldn't a simple HTML website on free hosting [freewebz.com homestead.com w/e] be a viable solution? Sure it'd be a little more difficult to add/remove bookmarks, but anywhere that can access the web can access your assortment of links.
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Thank you everyone for your suggestions. But I think I am going to stick with SiteJot. I do not want to host my own HTML file because it requires more work then I really want to do for bookmarks. SiteJot allows me to add a simple html button to any browser for instant bookmarking of current sites. I also really like how it lays out the page. I guess I don't really need more features, it seems like the best solution for me.
foxylicious lets you use your del.icio.us bookmarks in firefox natively.
bad-arse yo.
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ooc, is there anything besides del.icio.us for p2p bookmarking?
Bookmark synchronizer is a life saver. Don't leave home without it.
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