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

Packratitis

[ApharmdB]

The real way to solve your problem is with "delete."

But since you probably don't want to do that, a function that checks bookmarks for viability would help you a lot. I bet a lot of those sites you saved are long gone.

Re:Packratitis

[LazyBoy]

I agree. Toss 'em. Here's my list of "bookmark" sources.

Things I type (and complete with the browser history). It's faster than moving the mouse anyway.

A couple of dozen items on my MyYahoo home page.

Google.

Re:Packratitis

[ciscoguy01]

The real way to solve your problem is with "delete."

But since you probably don't want to do that, a function that checks bookmarks for viability would help you a lot. I bet a lot of those sites you saved are long gone

You mean like there was in Netscape 4.77? Fantastic bookmark manager. Could search inline, check for dead links, etc. Firefox has nothing, IE is much worse.

Having historical bookmarks are VERY USEFUL, I have had people IM me and say "what do you know about 'this'". They are invariably amazed when I send them my bookmarks on the subject.

search and bayes

[asa]

If a browser had a rock-solid non-volitle cache, then your history and your bookmarks could manifest out of that. Imagine that every page you've visited was stored in some reasonably light-weight database in the browser and then both auto-catagorized based on some combination of metadata grouping and bayesian analysis as well as available in a type-down filtering/auto-completing searchlike tool or tools.

You could just start typing any content or matching metadata from the site in the urlbar and it would filter on that and present options in the auto-complete pop-up list, maybe with additional ranking based on recency, frequency and user tweaking. Alternately, you could see various views of the auto-catagorization, a la iTunes, with a few simple sorting and flagging tools. Combining recency and frequency, plus user "nudging" of entries (possibly based on a simple TiVo-style thumbs up/thumbs down model) you would be able to find what you're looking for at the top of various folders/menus/treelists with more ease than today's common bookmark managers and it wouldn't require the forethough that you might one day want to find it.

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Don't bookmark

[A nonymous Coward]

I used to have hundreds, if not thousands, of bookmarks, but even before Google, I realized that 90% of them could be found again by a search. The added benefit is that if the site moves, or a better site comes along, the search automatically finds them too.

Re:What about Favicons?

[tommertron]

You're a better searcher than me. That's why I "ask slashdot" all the time. :)

Re:A feature I'd like to see

[fm6]

I'd like to see a feature that will automatically consult an automatic database (similar to CDDB) to get "kosherized" titles for web sites that I bookmark.

Have you looked at the titles in CDDB? They're a mess! Not an argument for letting strangers name your bookmarks. Easier to just take a second and edit them yourself.