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Ask Slashdot: Is There a Bookmark Manager That Actually Manages Bookmarks?

Posted by timothy on from the too-much-to-ask dept.

hackwrench writes: Most reviews of so-called bookmark managers focus on the fact that they can share bookmarks across browsers and devices and whether or not they can make your bookmarks public or not. Sometimes they mention that you can annotate bookmarks. Little is said about real management features like making certain bookmarks exclusive to one or a set of browsers or devices, checking for dead links and maybe even looking them up on archive.org. I'm sure this isn't an exhaustive list of features that would be good to have. What bookmarks managers do you use and why, and what features would you like to see in a bookmark manager?

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  1. Xmarks. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    Lets me set bookmark profiles for different devices/environments, so I have my "Work" bookmarks distinct from my home use ones. Automatically synchronizes between all major browsers and devices. I mainly only keep smart bookmarks and daily-use ones, so I don't ever need dead link checking or any frills like that. Covers my needs.

  2. Github Issues Database by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I use the github issues database. It allows me to quickly tag each bookmark and add descriptions. Works good. The side benefit is that it pretty useful for lots of other things too.

  3. Windows: Use .URL files by macraig · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If you use Windows .URL files, you gain several critical abilities: browser-independent storage, cross-browser utility, and searching and filtering driectly from Windows Explorer. The browsers I have used all support the ability to drag URLs directly from the browser address bar into Explorer or the Desktop to create these shortcuts. Not sure if you could then create methods and tools to support your other desired features like browser-exclusive shortcuts, but completely detaching URLs from any application-specific database is a good place to start.

    1. Re:Windows: Use .URL files by macraig · · Score: 3, Informative

      Drag and drop from the browser's address bar, specifically the "identity information" icon that precedes the URL. That saves the URL itself in a .URL shortcut file, not an attempted copy of the Web page as HTML/MHTML.

  4. My other by The+Evil+Atheist · · Score: 3, Funny

    My other bookmark manager is Google.

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  5. Two thoughts by Chewbacon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    1. Sometimes I have to rename the bookmark to something more meaningful than what's in the tags.
    2. Use tags. Firefox has them and it makes my life so much easier. It beats sorting them into folders.

    I'm not sure what to do about dead links. It happens. If you really, really need to save something forever, I assume it is something for reference, then save it to PDF and upload it to a cloud service.

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  6. ReOnly:added bookmarks, not deleted ones by hackwrench · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Worse, they can go, "Oh, I see that the browser you deleted a bookmark from is missing it. Let me add it back into your browser.

  7. Step away from the Bookmarks by jetkust · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I've bookmarked a thousand web pages and haven't clicked on a single one of them. Let them go, people. Just let them go.

  8. archive.org page check by Badooleoo · · Score: 3, Informative

    To check if a current site you are on is on archive.org have the following as a bookmark

    javascript:location.href='http://web.archive.org/web/*/'+document.location.href;

  9. Re:Real Programmers by Antique+Geekmeister · · Score: 3, Funny

    I haven't seen an announcement about systemd doing it yet, but there are a few hours left in this week's release cycle. And i'm sure it will be incompatible with all other bookmark managers and, in fact, all browsers.