Friday, July 22, 2011

Million bookmarks management

In the normal using of internet you see interesting stuff and want to keep it in your sight - be it a blog, a news clip or something you want to read later. What you will usually do is to add the page to bookmarks, then another one. Then another and suddenly there are so many of them you loose orientation what did you add them for, and in most cases you can't find that one you really need right now.
If your  management of bookmarks is better you already have made additional folders and cleaned up a little bit - like I did. But then some of my interests shifted and I did lot's of research in net, and it ended with usual mess of million bookmarks... a little bit confusing million bookmarks.


There are several solutions to that problem:
1. You can stop using internet altogether - no internet, no bookmarks
2. You could review all of your bookmarks and clean it up again - you have to do it anyway...
3. Use tools from internet - and here comes Diigo, and other similar services


What I do like about Diigo:
1. Links you save can be marked - Read Later (and on your list appear in Bold)
2. Integration with Google - if you log with your Google account, a search of Google will include Diigo account, quite useful
3. It has sticky notes and highlight - when you highlight part of text on page this will be remembered and saved on your Diigo library (limited for non-paid account)
4. To make more order you can add tags and you can keep bookmarks in lists (for example I have lists for research or read later or blog)
5. It has neat add-on for Chrome browser (and for others too) that allows you to do all of it with two easy clicks - and it has sharing option that can send emails!
6. You can share also your bookmarks in the total Diigo community, or you can keep them all private


Overall very useful little tool that will limit the number of bookmarks you have in your browser - I keep there only sites I use very often. For everything else I use Diigo - including sharing the best links with friends. Check it out - especially if you are working on some kind project that requires lots for research and you need to keep million of bookmarks alive.

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