Hi,<p>I have more than 200 bookmarks in my Chrome, I have tried different services to store them online,but every time I changed back to Chrome.<p>What do you use to store bookmarks?
Pinboard. 25441 bookmarks and counting, carried over from the 15000 or so I imported from delicious a few years ago. <a href="http://pinboard.in/u:deusx" rel="nofollow">http://pinboard.in/u:deusx</a><p>The thing is, though, how do you use bookmarks? I hoard everything and rely on search. I feel like once you're over a dozen or so, that's what you need to do. I long, long ago gave up trying to organize them by hand<p>I use my pinboard to collect links from my tweets and status updates posts, and I use IFTTT and a to:fb tag to post from pinboard to facebook.<p>I also use a bookmarklet to post to pinboard with tags.<p>Later, I use pinboard as a personal search engine between tags and search terms. Basically, everything I used to do with Delicious for years
Short story, my own system with over 16k links.<p>Back in 2004 there a competing service to delicious called Furl (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furl" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furl</a>) it would save a snapshot of page you were saving.<p>The only downside was it was slow so I modified the bookmarklet to point to my own domain. I called my system Lruf (furl backwards) built with PHP and MySQL.<p>It worked well enough for a very long time, I would occasionally work on it. It was built in a very 2004 way (logic and display intertwined)<p>I had added other features through out the years (tagging, rating, 404 checking, etc).<p>Last year I finally rewrote the entire system using a framework, I used diffbot to extract the text from the page and opencalais to help with auto tagging bookmarks. I switched search to use Solr.<p>It has been a nice little side project for the last 9 years.
<a href="http://historio.us" rel="nofollow">http://historio.us</a> -- indexes the contents of pages allowing for search based on page contents, not just domain or title. I have a small selection of bookmarks I use repeatedly in the chrome bar thingy and then use historious (with the chrome extension) for everything else. Saved me a lot of trouble many times when I could only remember a fragment of the page contents I was looking for.
Kippt is really good for any type of bookmark.<p>I made my site <a href="http://pineapple.io" rel="nofollow">http://pineapple.io</a> specifically for all my development bookmarks. Since then it's grown to be quite a nice awesome database. I moderate it really heavily for quality, so if you skim all 100 pages I guarantee you will find tons of hidden gems.
I always save my bookmarks in Firefox.
To make sure I don't lose them next time I reinstall Windows I use an add-on called FEBE that backs-up all my bookmarks(among other things) into a directory.
Next time I have a vanilla Firefox I reinstall FEBE and import all my bookmarks.
I really don't need to spend the extra time to go see another website.
Another trick I use is to delete the bookmark name and only leave the favicon to showup. It saves space and I'm only one click away from my favorite website.<p>If you tried other services and returned to Chrome then it seems you're looking for a specific feature and you're not finding it, but you also didn't tell us what it is.<p>Just use Chrome and try to categorize your bookmarks as best you can.<p>Here is a simple(and a bit ugly) website that lets you bookmark sites. I don't use it but I recommended it before and some people seemed to like it: <a href="http://fav20.ro/" rel="nofollow">http://fav20.ro/</a>
I have a Wordpress install with a couple plugins: <a href="http://aaron.pk/bookmarks/" rel="nofollow">http://aaron.pk/bookmarks/</a><p>More info: <a href="http://aaron.pk/bookmarks/about/" rel="nofollow">http://aaron.pk/bookmarks/about/</a>
They exist somewhere in the Opera cloud ether, and locally on my computer. Sync doesn't work, so it is a pretty crappy solution.<p>I thought briefly of writing some Pinboard.in extension, but I probably wouldn't be able to extend the built-in bookmarks system anyway.<p>Chrome sync doesn't work either. :/<p>I do prefer Opera to Chrome, because it manages bookmarks better, when I need to access them and search for something particular, though.
Hijacking: I'm looking exclusively for a service that allows for images to be applied to the link the way Snip.it was. I've found [related] visuals (even if it's just a cropped screengrab of the site/blog post) are much quicker to remember/navigate through later than text. Been trying to use Kippt, but it just doesn't do it for me.
Same problem, I use chrome bookmarks mainly (due to the sync with my mobile and every other chrome I have) and Pocket. And sometimes also Kippt.<p>I wonder if there is a service that syncs your Chrome bookmarks (one way, read only) to some nice web UI that allows better searching (e.g. search by folder name, not just bookmark title)
I used to use Del.icio.us and _loved_ they version 2.0 look. It was beautiful service I would happily pay for using if I had to. I was so dissapointed at the time they were killing it, I never switched to pinboard or anything like this.<p>Now I defaulted to bookmarks in Chrome, synced and encrypted + Session Buddy extension [0].<p>I sort heavily using folders:<p>'by Topic'(abbr. to 'bT') with subfolders for current research projects (eg. Juicer,...);<p>'People' with subfolders 'Friend A's name',... where I put links received from / sent to folks;<p>'Track' with 'Year.Month' subfolders;<p>I rearrange folders so placement of a folder is also a queue - both left-right on the toolbar and up/down in a dropdown (Chrome does not force 'byTime' or 'A-Z' sorting and allows dragging).
I also keep folder names as short as possible: S would stand for 'Services' - web apps I use on daily basis, 'R' would be 'Research'. Most frequently used services get bookmark without text - just an icon on the bar.<p>'I defaulted to bookmarks in Chrome' means its the simplest thing, bare minimum, but it kind of works. Saving pages on mobile? - I get lost here (Opera Mobile on the phone has 40+ open tabs - 'bookmarked', so to speak).<p>Session Buddy is a beast of its own. You can name sessions there, merge them, edit them, search them and so on.<p>Tools we use shape us in more subtle ways than we usually realise. I certainly miss 'social' part of using Del.icio.us and I would definitely reach out more if using social bookmarking service instead of bookmarks in a browser. Maybe I should come back.<p>[0] <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edacconmaakjimmfgnblocblbcdcpbko" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edac...</a><p>Edit: For me 'How do you manage your bookmarks?' is a sub-problem of a topic of 'How you take/manage notes' (including lists, todos and all that stuff). I don't even wanna start it.
I keep a strict minimum. I use folders as much as I can. I sync them through chrome & firefox (I have different bookmark for each browser). I use multi row toolbar. ( <a href="http://i.imgur.com/1UQ915E.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/1UQ915E.png</a> )<p>Also, so as not to flood my toolbar I "star" some of them in Firefox. It doesn't appear in the list but I can still give them some "tags". For example I've tagged all the hipmunk, matrix, skyscanner, easyjet, adioso... to the words "plane, tickets, travel" etc...
I use Firefox Sync to keep my bookmarks and history synced between my personal and work laptops and my phone. I like that Sync keeps my bookmarks encrypted on the server, and I have no interest in a web UI; I just want my browser to have the same resources available no matter which system I use it on.<p>I do wish Sync supported different bookmarks toolbar folders for different systems, though. At the moment I just only display the toolbar on one system.
I can't believe no one has mentioned XMarks.com I've used them for years. Can't imagine using anything else.<p>I keep a minimal amount of bookmarks, only ones I visit daily.<p>For archiving, I use Kippt.
I've built <a href="http://lstack.com" rel="nofollow">http://lstack.com</a> to satisfy my need to store custom parameters with bookmarks, rather than tags only (eg. <a href="http://www.clojure.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.clojure.org/</a> programming language, licence:epl, lisp, clojure, platform:jvm, language:clojure, paradigm:functional). It's private and under development. You can give it a try.
Chrome. I don't bookmark a ton of stuff, just things that might be difficult to find again in the future. Otherwise a minute on Google will usually help me find whatever. I used to be a fan of Delicious but the browser extensions and stuff never worked in a manner I was fond of.<p>Pretty sure I'll end up building my own mini-app eventually for quickly archiving links, so I tailor it however I want.
I had a lot of bookmarks too. But how many times I used it? Once, twice a year? And I never got to really organize my bookmarks. It's always bothered me.<p>Now I rarely use bookmaks. I just keep a few that I visit daily.<p>So, everytime I need something I go to google. And I use pocket for things that I really wanna read later. If I don't read it in some time, I just delete the link.<p>It had worked fine for me. It's simple and focused.
<a href="http://bookmarked.in" rel="nofollow">http://bookmarked.in</a> -- It's private, does one thing and does it really well - saves a link to a list of other links! Sometimes I just want to save a link and continue browsing without being hassled for extraneous details like tags or descriptions. Features=1 -> save a URL.
Still use delicious-- 3,600 links. I rarely need to go far back in time (and I'm sure many links are dead), but it's a nice "journal" of what I've thought was noteworthy over the past 7-8+ years. It would be nice to know what my very first bookmark was, but, sadly, due to their infinite scroll interface I'm not sure how.
There is probably a service that could take care of this for me, but generally skip bookmarks altogether and just email myself the URL and a few Keywords that are meaningful to me. Then I can just use Gmail's search to find what I'm looking for at a later date. So it's essentially browser/OS/device/location agnostic.
Here is my method, with just Chrome and a combination of 2–3 organization methods.<p>I’m tired and not english native so this is poorly written, but it enables me to keep 434 favorites (and growing, I could scale to at least 1500 I’m sure) and not feel overwhelmed by them.<p>-----<p>Simple filing from zenhabits’ article: <a href="http://zenhabits.net/how-to-create-a-minimalist-computer-experience/" rel="nofollow">http://zenhabits.net/how-to-create-a-minimalist-computer-exp...</a>
I have four folders on my chrome bar, inbox – projects – reading – archives.<p>--<p>Inbox is for things that I must take action on, like reading it (but that doesn’t go into Reading because I <i></i>must<i></i> read it, unlike things in Reading that are good to read but not mandatory for me).<p>--<p>Projects contains links related to the projects I’m currently working on, each project got its own folder.<p>--<p>Reading categories from Mark Hurst’s book Bit Literacy: Inside my reading folder, I have:<p>Stars for blogs (and the like) from which I usually read every article/news.<p>Scans for blogs/etc. that I enjoy much but have to scan to then decide what I’m reading (HN for example, the other one I have is Quora).<p>Targets for blogs from my competitor that I want to keep an eye on.<p>Tryouts for blogs that are good but not good enough that they are on my routine for reading.<p>For specific articles, they go at the root of Reading.<p>This is poorly written and I’m sorry, you should check Bit Literacy anyway as it has a lot of info for not feeling overflowed by bits in general (applies whether you’re a newbie or an advanced user).<p>--<p>Archives contains links I’ve already read. With inside a folder structure that mimicks the categories on <a href="http://personalmba.com/best-business-books" rel="nofollow">http://personalmba.com/best-business-books</a> (Business Creation, Value-creation/Testing, Marketing, etc…), with two additional folders for Health and Programming.<p>If it doesn’t have a category, I just put them into Archives.<p>--<p>For searching, I use the search bar from the bookmarks manager (Ctrl + Shift + O), it searches inside the title but that’s often enough, if I know the title doesn’t match what I’m looking after I rename the title when I’m adding the favorite.
I have about 1300 and Chrome's bookmark interface is slow at this quantity so I use and recommend this extension:<p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/neater-bookmarks/ofgjggbjanlhbgaemjbkiegeebmccifi" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/neater-bookmarks/o...</a>
I use Chrome for all bookmarks I want to share publicly at work, home and etc. For private bookmarks, I use my desktop. (And this is the main reason I moved away from Ubuntu + Unity. Someone had the bright idea of disallowing URL dragging to the desktop.)
Evernote. Although a lot more than a bookmarking tool, once you fit it into your workflow, it is a pretty amazing tool for curating all kinds of things, and you can easily share it across all your devices. I couldn't live without it now.
I've got a strip of favicons in the bookmark bar in Chrome for stuff I regularly visit. For sites/pages/content I want to keep longer-term, I use Evernote. Useful in case the site changes, or goes offline too.
I gave up on bookmarks. They just pile up and I never go back to read anything. Search is so powerful that within a few keywords and filters I can find exactly what I'm looking for without the need to store it.
I want a plugin in syncs somewhere private and not anything akin to del.icio.us. I've had trouble getting Xmarks with private servers working though this may no longer be the case. Any recommendations?
I use ClipBoard.com almost exclusively although I recently started to use Evernote and it's working out well so far. Both have easy-to-use Chrome extensions that make bookmarking and tagging a breeze.
Right now I just dump them into Firefox. I'd like to keep archive copies of the pages, but I don't want to use a third-party service for that, and I haven't found anything to my liking.
<a href="http://zootool.com/" rel="nofollow">http://zootool.com/</a> looks interesting, haven't used it though, still just using Chrome for bookmarking..
diigo.com -- I can share bookmarks to groups so my coworkers get access to them and best of all, with the chrome extension, every search I do on Google also searches my diigo library.
I know HN follows the "less is more" philosophy, but one thing I'd really like is the ability to "save" a submission like you can on reddit.<p>As it is, the only way I can do that is to comment, which probably isn't very good for anybody.