[IxDA Discuss] Bookmarks Managment Brainstorming

[Robert Hoekman, Jr.]

Personally, I highly recommend Dashboard HQ. It's a very simple, very
straightforward bookmark management app. Looks like a start page (ala Google
Personalized), but all it does is serve as a customizable portal for your
bookmarks and notes. Just set it as your homepage and go.

http://www.dashboardhq.com

And since I designed it, I'm quite biased. :)

-r-



On 11/27/06, Dave Chiu <dave at d4v3.net> wrote:
>
> I like that del.icio.us is lightweight, but the killer feature in
> Ma.gnolia (at least for me) is that it saves a copy of the page you
> bookmarked. So even if someone makes a change or the page later
> disappears, you still have the content you originally bookmarked.
> People seem to forget that the web is a dynamic environment where
> things appear and disappear in the blink of an eye.
>
> I switched to Ma.gnolia after I bookmarked a couple of sites with
> del.icio.us for future reading, only to have them disappear later.
> While Ma.gnolia doesn't fix link-rot, it helps to mitigate its
> effects: I guess you could look at it as a highly-personalized
> Internet Archive.
>
> Personally, I think the archiving feature is the most important
> aspect of bookmarking, regardless of what service you use, perhaps
> even more important than the social aspects. What's the point of
> bookmarking something if I can't retrieve it later?
>
> (Note that because of copyright issues, the archived copy of a site
> is available on Ma.gnolia only to the person who made the bookmark.)
>
> Dave Chiu
>
> On Nov 27, 2006, at 11:15 AM, Leisa Reichelt wrote:
>
> > Another vote for Del.icio.us + Firefox + the Del.icio.us Add-on
> > from me.
> >
> > I did toy with Ma.gnolia briefly, but didn't see any real advantage
> > over Del.icio.us to make it worth the move.
> >
> > Since using Del.icio.us I have almost entirely abandoned bookmarks as
> > I used to use them (to remember sites where I'd found valuable
> > information). Bookmarks have now become, for me, quick starts for all
> > the web applications that I use on a daily basis. Del.icio.us is like
> > my 'library' now.
> >
> > In addition to the benefits of being web based and networked, I also
> > find that the tagging navigation makes my links much more
> > 'retrieveable' than the 'folder' structure of traditional bookmarks.
> > ________________________
> > Leisa Reichelt
> > User Experience Consultant
> >
> > leisa.reichelt at gmail.com
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