Just a quick one today. How do y’all manage your bookmarks?
I’m slowly suffocating under the weight of all the bookmarks I have in Safari – I actually have no idea how many there are – and then there’s all the ones from Firefox too *shudders* I’ve spent most of the morning trying to clear them all out and better organise my hierarchy, but since I like to categorise stuff I have folder within folder within folder…you get the picture.
Oh I went all modern and signed up to Delicious awhile ago now of course, but it’s not yet part of my bookmarking strategy. In fact, it’s filling up with bookmarks too so I desperately need to sync it with my desktop browsers. I’ve been taking Cocoalicious for a spin (a desktop client that lets you manage your Delicious bookmarks). It’s all right but the lack of any help had me scratching my head as to how you delete bookmarks – until I discovered you press backspace instead of delete, geez! It’s a bit simple though and doesn’t seem to do much else but hey it’s free. I know there’s other apps/plugins out there (Safarilicious etc) but until I get my bookmarks organised, there’s no point sticking them on Delicious.
I’m not all together convinced Delicious is for me anyway, I can’t really seem to get away from folders in favour of tags (it’s weird seeing stuff coming up under multiple tags in Cocoalicious). Still, maybe when I finally get through this lot i’ll give it a shot. A nice little tut I found just now suggests using symbols in the bookmarks bar. I’ve already replaced “Apple” with the Apple symbol as seen below, now I just need to get a bit more creative with the rest to squeeze more in..
May 29th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
There’s also Diigo. There are some things I like about it (easy to search through everything, not just tags), some things I prefer Delicious for (easier to tag things in the first place). Argh!