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How do I access my favorites on google Сhrome?

Links and tags and categories, oh my!

  • How do YOU use those bookmark/web info organizers? I've played around with Evernote, Google Notebooks, Firefox's Scrapbook, Delicious and Blinklist. I think they're all fabulous, but so far, it hasn't *clicked* as to how I can best use one or all of these. I still have a ton of links in my Firefox bookmarks. My head is spinning from all these options! I want to have one spot I go to for work and personal bookmarks. I'd love to be able to categorize and tag. And I'd like to find some way to make these visible to me on a regular basis, so I don't forget about them. (The Delicious plugins for the customizable Google homepage, http://www.google.com/ig, are pretty cool.) I'd like to have the ability to make some links private and access them from other computers. So, how do YOU do this for yourself (assuming you're inclined to do so)? Do you use the tools I mentioned above? Do you have other favorites? What's the best one you've used and why?

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    I use delicious, broken into categories that make sense for me (verbs that describe the various things I do, essentially), and with lots of tags that fall under multiple categories. I have a couple of friends who also use delicious, and I like that they can "send" me links they think might be interesting. I also like browsing my network to see what people I know are interested in in general. I also really love looking at who else has linked to pages I bookmark -- especially those pages that only one or two other people link to. Sometimes I'll browse on over to their delicious pages and find more interesting stuff online that I wouldn't know about otherwise.

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All of these answers have been useful to me, and I've marked a couple that have given me some big a-ha's. Thanks all and please keep answer coming.

lucyleaf

Personally, I can't rate http://www.netvouz.com highly enough. All the fun of tagging with del.icio.us with all the categories that one is used to. Plus ask the developer for a particular feature - and if you're lucky, it's implemented that weekend! Now if only you could tag a link in two categories.

badlydubbedboy

One of my favorite tags is '.toread' This is something that I come across on the net, that I want to read (and still possibly have later), but just not now.

filmgeek

Is anybody else dissuaded by the terrible terrible speeds of Furl and del.icio.us? No, you're not the only one. Delicious has it's place, but it's not the be all end all for me. I keep the basics in the browser (safari). For everything else I use http://www.happyapps.com/webnotehappy/. Tags, smart folders, notes, browser independent, I control backup and I don't have to count on delicious staying around. If I want to share a link with delicious I can upload the link from webnotehappy. But there's a lot of links (shoes I want to buy, etc) that I have no reason to put on delicious. I don't have the problem of multiple computers, but I doubt that I'd change my system even if I did. It works too well for me.

justgary

I use del.icio.us as a portable bookmarks tool, and also as a much better way to sort and organise my bookmarks. I use two pieces to do this. 1. The mozdev del.icio.us firefox plugin. Just hit ALT-SHIFT-S to bookmark a page to del.icio.us. I've tried the official del.icio.us plugin, but I didn't like the fact that it didn't have a keyboard shortcut (I used to use CTRL-D all the time for regular bookmarks). Once I've decided to bookmark a page, I don't really have any specific tagging theories, but I try my best to keep them consistent and avoid adding slightly different spelt tags (ie. always 'macintosh' and not 'mac'). 2. Every del.icio.us page has an RSS feed attached to it. This makes it easy for me to make new live bookmarks in firefox for various different categories. For instance, up the top in my bookmark toolbar currently I have a live bookmark for 'daily', another for 'comics' and another that just does ALL bookmarks on del.icio.us (shows the last 30 sites or so I've bookmarked). This system makes it really EASY for me to move bookmarks between home and work. It also allows me to do a search on different tags by going to del.icio.us/ranglin ... Although I like the idea of Cocoalicious, which I might have a look at...

ranglin

Is anybody else dissuaded by the terrible terrible speeds of Furl and del.icio.us? I've tried both, but it seems like every time I tried to bookmark something it'd take a minute to add, and occasionally wouldn't go through. I don't mind a preliminary page that asks me for tags, but I don't want to have to wait around 2 minutes after I tag it to make sure it goes through. I used http://ejohn.org/blog/super-fast-delicious-bookmarklet/ for quicktagging on delicious, but occasionally it would fail to save bookmarks (like when the page had no title), and either way it sure didn't help out del.icio.us's bandwidth. Are there any reliable bookmarking sites that'll let me bookmark a page as fast as using "Add Bookmark?" For right now i"ve been using http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/browsersync/ to save my bookmarks cross-browser -- it's a little annoying with the stupid "syncing to google" non-backgrounded process during startup, but much better than "losing" a page i wanted to del.icio.us.

fishfucker

@Anadem - FoxMark appears to be the new black, since Bookmarks Synchronizer isn't being updated anymore.

LuckySeven~

Anadem, you're my hero. I do the same thing as you (minus the Furl part), but I'd never heard of Bookmarks Synchronizer for some strange reason. It's exactly what I need. Thanks! I avoid Delicious like the plague; it's a serious time waster for someone like me who's easily distracted.

LuckySeven~

I use del.icio.us, plus I have http://www.mac.com/1/sync.html, so my Safari bookmarks are the same on my home and work computers. http://ma.gnolia.com/ is a nice-looking alternative that saves copies of web pages. You can import del.icio.us links. (I hate these clever domain name spellings.) I used to use http://www.backflip.com/, which was one of the first online bookmarking sites. It's much clunkier than del.icio.us. (I just logged in for the first time in several years; it's like time travel, but nerdier.) Wikipedia's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Del.icio.us lists some utilities and alternate interfaces.

kirkaracha

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