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Suggestions for Browser Bookmark Management?
slashdot_commentator asks: "My bookmark collection has hit a few thousand at this point. Anything that looks interesting, or may be of interest in the future, I tuck away.
I group them in roughly 30 different subfolders based on topic. I've decided I consume too much effort in organizing them, and need to find a better solution. I've looked at radically different systems like del.icio.us, but its not for me. I'm even toying with writing a plugin/replacement to the current built-in bookmark manager. Can anyone recommend a plugin or package? Or alternately, features they would like to see in a 'bookmark manager'?"
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is I just upload my bookmarks.html (from firefox) to a webserver. Then when I need them on the road, I just visit the URL. And since firefox keeps them in html-format, you can just view your bookmarks as a webpage. It works well. Try it!
Best regards, A.C.
Take your pick.
What, me worry?
I have a button to turn on logging and get the text of every page saved in different text file, (And the URL saved in a seperate XML file.) for when I'm doing research I'll need later.
And I have a button that saves the whole page intact automatically, with graphics in a directory.
But if you have infinite disk space, you can easily do the latter on every page, with a handy toolbar button for a toggle. And all URLs recorded in whatever format you can invent.
Indexing the saved pages, you ask? I point you to Google Desktop. ;)
Also, for google desktop, there is a plugin called Kongulo (Find in the standard place for plugins.) that a web spider, and they look just like they're in web browser history...a click, by default, goes and the current page, but you can go to the cached local copy instead.
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THere is a program (google for it) called AM-Deadlink. It will check for dupes and dead links, and redirection pages too. It also works for Firefox, Mozilla, Opera and IE.
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It's pretty cool... there's a plugin for firefox... take your bookmarks anywhere. Might be what you're looking for.
I used to keep bookmarks and then switched to using google/yahoo search engine technique you mentioned. But of late, I am switching back to keeping bookmarks because the quality of search results from the search engines seems to have deteriorated. Earlier the relevant results would appear in the first couple of pages. Now, I have to dig through the list of junk results before hitting the relevent page. To save me the hassle the next time around - I just bookmark the site.
What I want, and have not looked for yet, is something that keeps my bookmarks the same between all my browsers on all my os, on all my systems.
You could try portable firefox, basically it goes on a usbpen or similar device and can be used on as many machines as you want as far as i remember.
Another alternative would be to use the import/export function in firefox normally, save a few days worth of bookmarks, export tehm and import them at home.
Did you look at all? I found this with one Google search: http://www.extensionsmirror.nl/index.php?showtopic =617
You may want to check out online bookmark services comparison chart. Most of them will import/export your bookmarks from all popular browsers.
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SiteBar is the most powerful, and yet simple, bookmark manager out there. (I know because I started the project and handed it off to a brilliant programmer!)
It's a bookmark *server*, so you don't have to even be at your own computer to have all your bookmarks organized.
It runs in either your sidebar (beautiful in Firefox), main window, a stand-alone pop-up, your menu, an RSS feed, or embedded in any web page.
It's OSS, written in PHP/MySQL (port it if you'd like) so you can run your own server if you'd like
or use one of any number of public SiteBar servers which other people run.
It does link checking, expires old dead links, shows favicons in it's tree, has full users and groups if you want a multi-user setup, and fine granular control over editing/adding/deleting/viewing if you want to run it in your intranet.
You can simply import your current bookmark file (any format!), synch between installs, export to a different bookmark file, or use it from the server itself.
Check it out... let me know what you think mindslip.com>
I've suffered from the billion bookmarks problem too, and I believe "delete it" is sound advise.
For some background, take a look at the book "Getting Things Done" by David Allen. You'll realise that having so many bookmarks doesn't assist you in any way. There are too many to be used for reference material, and too many to consult regularly.
Instead, try to do the following:
1. Have a list of "TO DO" bookmarks. Those sites you want to take a closer look at, articles you want to read, etc. When you have spare time, work over this list. Once handled the bookmark must be moved off this list.
2. Have a list of "Regular" bookmarks. These are sites you want to visit regularly. You could subcategorise them as daily, weekly, monthly (or hourly for Slashdot ;) ).
3. Have a list of "Reference" bookmarks and criteria for adding new ones. Carefully choosing your criteria is important. I suggest that you never put a bookmark directly into reference, but put it into "TO DO" first so that you review it at least one at a later time before deciding on its importance. Then omit any bookmarks to information that can be easily found by searching. Then ask yourself "would I use this as reference if I printed it out and filed it in a cabinet?" If yes, then it makes it in as a reference bookmark.
You'll suddenly find that you have a managable amount of reference material, and can categorise it easily according to your needs.
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