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'?"

Comments

Re:search and bayes

[DavidTC]

Slogger can save every page you visit, in quite a lot of formats. I have two modes set up.

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.

chipmarks

[jkakar]

https://www.chipmark.com/Main

It's pretty cool... there's a plugin for firefox... take your bookmarks anywhere. Might be what you're looking for.

Re:Packratitis

[Twylite]

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.