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bookmarking like water
barryl | Apr 15 2007
I'm trying to dig myself out of the fog, and one thing headed for sure into that galaxy-class inbox is the tangled mess of mis-matched bookmarks on 3 different computers. Are social bookmarks the best way to clean this up? I like the lookfeel of ma.gnolia, but can't see how tagging and grouping will ever replace a (someday) lean, organized nest of bookmarks. I think having old-fashioned, hard-wired browser bookmarks for routine work like financials, preferred shopping, the library, car registration, schools, etc. makes sense. They're fairly fixed and should be easy enough to maintain across different machines. Right? I think a sole, online, collection is nicely suited for hunter gathering forays from ANY machine, whether for ongoing projects or ad hoc impulses. What are your thoughts, perspectives on this? What satisfying solutions have you found? Is social bookmarking more advantageous than simple bookmark syncing? Does one support GTD methodology better? Can this ever be clean, fast, simple, kinda sorta complete--over and done with? Many thanks. -b 12 Comments
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 I second the del.icio.us recommendation....Submitted by mdl on April 16, 2007 - 9:41am.
I second the del.icio.us recommendation. Granted, you DO NOT want to bookmark the login site to your bank account with your account id and password in the subject line (save the hard browser links for that). But I can't even begin to tell you how many felicitous discoveries I've made by following links to stuff that other people have bookmarked. It's as if thousands of other people were doing the work of searching the web for you. (And you can also subscribe to anyone else's bookmarks as an RSS feed--e.g., Merlin's bookmarks.) The other good thing: tags let you manage hundreds, even thousands, of bookmarks, whereas more than a couple hundred gets unmanageable with a web browser. The way I see it: save your web browser bookmarks for the sites you use over and over again. But use an online, social bookmarking site for all the random stuff you want to save for POTENTIAL future use but otherwise don't want to fuss about. » POSTED IN:
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