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Started 2 years ago by panda
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panda
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I spend a lot of time on the computer and the internet reading, listening to music, studying, working and chatting with my friends.
A big problem is that I do have a lot of bookmarks. I've created several bookmarks folders so far in my bookmark bar like blogs, music, forums, work, school, etc. But I do have together more then 50 pages bookmarked that I check daily or every few days, and I can't live without any of them. So does anyone have any ideas or suggestion if there's maybe a better way to order them?

Thank you.

Posted 2 years ago #
sherrybanarsi
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Try Delicious. It allows tagging and sharing of bookmarks (you can keep them private if you choose). I haven't used it extensively as I prefer keeping bookmarks associated with the browser and I try to keep the number of favorite sites low - but if I ever find myself keeping track of a 50 sites, it'd be my organizing solution.

Posted 2 years ago #
skywisenight
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I agree, Delicious ( http://www.delicious.com ) is probably a good way to go. Bounce between 3 machines and have a fair assortment of bookmarks to track. I use the tagging obviously, but for me what makes this really work is to have an extra tag for all my bookmarks I use daily or very frequently and set the view of that tag as my homepage... I try to keep the list below 30 for my daily ones.

Most browsers also have plugins to do bookmarking right to delicious so you don't have to go out of your way to add new sites.

Posted 2 years ago #
badkitti
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Another vote for delicious! In fact I'm thinking of setting up two accounts - the second as a professional one for teaching and getting older students to link to and share good revision sites.

Mine is full of ideas for when I eventually get my own house, teaching sites, present ideas etc. etc.

In fact I think I got the idea from unclutterer

Some browsers allow you to have a delicious button which just bookmarks the page without linking to the site itself

Posted 2 years ago #
jo
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I use Delicious to hold the bookmarks that I want available for teaching and other interests. For those sites that I check daily I post them on my iGoogle page. I can access that page from any computer, any browser.

Posted 2 years ago #
panda
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I just looked at Delicious and it requires a yahoo account, what means I would have to register, and that would be another mail, another password, and I don't want to do that. And I work always from my macbook pro and I take it wherever I go. So I've done the following: I've upgraded my google reader a little bit. I've created for every bookmarks group a folder and put them in that folder and I've subscribed to every page that I check daily that allows rss. And I've encountered only one that doesn't support that. As I use Safari for internet browsing I've placed all the forums and other pages like twitter, google, facebook under my top sites. Now I have only a few bookmarked sites left which I will subscribe to, or put them under my top sites (I use currently only 6). I hope I will be able to remove the bookmarks bar from my browser in a few days :)

Posted 2 years ago #
LauraCore
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I think that the RSS is a great idea. I too am subject to bookmarking too many pages. The RSS has helped me cut down on that. But I also sort through my bookmarks often. Other people use Evernote to capture specific pages of a website.

Posted 2 years ago #
toberead
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I use Bloglines for most of the web sites I check daily. It's another way to check RSS feeds, but I prefer the way it is set up, compared to Google Reader.

As far as delicious, I don't think you need a Yahoo email to use it. I have just started using it and I used my regular email address to sign up. But I find it a little bit awkward to use for daily web sites - it seems to be more cumbersome than Bloglines.

Posted 2 years ago #
Dev
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I used to have loads of bookmarks, but now I don't keep any except for things I want to read later. I use a start.io page (basically just a customizable homepage with only links) for all the page I go to once I open my browser (Gmail, Reader, google docs, etc) and another page for the ones I visit infrequently. It actually has a RSS feeder built in, so it picks up the updates automatically. Other than that, I use Reader.

Posted 2 years ago #
davidh
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I use a lot of Google's services, all from a single login. One of them is Google Bookmarks. It's much like delicious but without the social bookmark-sharing feature.

I like having my bookmarks stored outside my own computer. It's one less thing I have to think about transferring when setting up a new PC.

Posted 2 years ago #
Patch
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I keep a few websites that I visit everyday just in Favorites or on my desktop, but for ALL of them I keep offline but electronically in a master Word document:

I have them first grouped in meaningful subject categories -- like Animals, Computer, Home, Humor, Money, News & Politics, Reference, Shopping, Travel, Work, etc. Within each category they are listed in 2 columns: alphabetically by link/website name (left column) and URL in the right column. If there is a login I have that right next to the URL.

I haven't had the need to print it out yet, as I can just go to the website by clicking on the URL, but I could if need be. In fact the Word doc itself is over 20 pages now so I need to thin it out, but as it takes up no physical space and minimal computer space, it's not my biggest priority right now.

Posted 1 year ago #
terriok
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I have a much loved Mac. I use Bookdog. It gets rid of duplicates and organizes for you.

Posted 1 year ago #

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